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
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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