The Myths

I’ve been doing a lot of lately thinking about concepts

“PMP” or Standard way of handling project which we have been doing since years verses
Agile way of handling project.

When I thought about writing on these two project management theories, I thought I will be writing comparison between two or similarities but after executing couple of project using both methodologies I decided to write “what not to do” in both cases or what is the short comes each one have.

Agile Myths
• In Agile we don’t plan or architecture
• Agile don’t have role for project managers
• In Agile project manager don’t have control over team
• Agile cannot work for large projects
• Agile is not for project which have diverse team (different physical location, different time zones)
• In Agile you cannot predict the outcome or don’t have control over results.
• Its methodology or tool which will solve all the problems
• Agile means you can do whatever you want to do
• Agile doesn’t work with CMM processes
•


SDLC Myths
• Projects Will Take Longer
• There Is More Paperwork
• I Can’t Get Approvals
• Gates/Checkpoints Don’t Make Sense
• Projects Will Cost More
• Slow
• Does not adapt to changing requirements
• Minimal user input
• Higher error rates
• Difficult to convince some customer’s process is controllable
• Needs considerable risk assessment
• If risk not discovered, problems will occur
• Risk analysis effort wasted for simple, easy projects.
• Harder to estimate manpower time
• Premature launch of prototype

Old aforesaid theory to manage long extended family is to “Believe and follow the Man of the house” is seems to be bit conventional these days for some people but if we look at the fact that 60% to 70% of IT projects fails then we really need to see our milksop project managers or project management applied to those projects by them [of-course need to considering other factors also]

Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. It is often closely related to and sometimes conflated with program management.
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management]

Above definition sounds very amiable or attainable to every one of us but still the failure percentage is seems to be sullen to the project management community. Let discuss the real project problems and try to exonerate the project management conventions, miss-reading of project management theories or wrong operation of projects.

This blog delve to close aperture(s) of the conventional Project Management and the agile way of managing the projects with real world project problems.