About the Session:
The PMI just announced a forthcoming new credential: the “Agile Certification” credential. What does this mean? How does this change things, or not? What is “Agile Project Management” ?
What about the apparently widening gulf between the “command and control” PMI world, and the “self organizing emergence” of the Agile world?
Join Chuck Cobb, author of the book MAKING SENSE OF AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT, and the Agile Boston user group, on April 27 at 630PM, to explore these issues.
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Chuck says:
There is a significant perceived gap between the principles and practices of the Agile Community and the PMI Project Management Community.
On the surface, it may appear that these two approaches are competitive with each other rather than complementary. However, if we look beyond the way these ideologies have been commonly implemented in actual practice and look past many of the stereotypes and misconceptions that have helped to amplify the differences between them; there’s a lot that can be learned from gaining a deeper understanding of how these two approaches can be blended together.
To better understand how these two approaches can be integrated, we need to breakdown the language barriers and polarizing terms that exist between these two communities and better understand the reasoning and logic behind these two different approaches.
The key point of perceived conflict is over the need for agility versus control – the key thing to understand is the decision to be agile or not is not an” all or nothing” decision – there are many ways to blend an appropriate level of control and agility to find the “requisite agility” that is appropriate for that project and environment.
The most common mistake many people make is to try to force-fit a project to a pre-defined methodology (either agile or non-agile) – the right approach is the other way around – to fit the methodology (or combination of methodologies, principles, and practices) to the project and business environment. In some cases, this may require creating a customized approach rather than using a canned, “text book” approach (either agile or non-agile).
This meeting is based on a new book called “Making Sense of Agile Project Management” by Chuck Cobb that is designed to help people see these two ideologies in a very different light as complementary to each other rather than competitive.
Chuck plan to do a presentation on content from his book that is intended to stimulate some very positive dialog between the agile community and the PMI project management community to develop the mutual understanding that is needed to close this perceived gap.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER: CHUCK COBB
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Chuck Cobb bio is a Product Development Technical Lead at Sikorsky Aircraft. Ralph provides technical direction and development expertise for ground-based information systems. In January 2010, Ralph initiated and led the adoption of Scrum. The Scrum Team consists of 10 people with the following product development disciplines: customer relations, requirements, design, test, integration, and technical support. Ralph is a
NOTE THE DATE AND LOCATION:
Date: Wednesday April 27 2011 6:30PM
Location: Microsoft Waltham. DIRECTIONS TO MICROSOFT WALTHAM.
MEETING AGENDA:
630PM Agile intro:fundamentals of Scrum
700PM Socialization break….food and beverages throughout
715PM MAIN EVENT: CHECK COBB on: MAKING SENSE OF AGILE
820PM CONCLUDE and WRAP UP
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This is a FREE event of Agile Boston. When you register, you are committing to attendance. REGISTER HERE.
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