Comments on Agile Software Development: Agile Project Management Is Not Enough

Hi! I too have been trying to persuade some colle...

2008-09-17T02:17:00.000Z

Hi! I too have been trying to persuade some colleagues that Scrum is a great development approach, but there's more required that Scrum doesn't cover.

Rob Thomsett (www.thomsettinternational.com) has come up with an excellent framework that does cover all the bases - he even calls it Agile PM. It focuses on stakeholder engagement, business benefit obsession, clear scoping etc - it feeds into the 'vision' input of the Product Backlog.

In answer to Jay, it doesn't really cover the creative or design aspect and that's something I'm keen on pursuing too.

- Carolyn

Good news! Michele Sliger's "The Software Project...

2008-07-09T13:50:00.000Z

Good news! Michele Sliger's "The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility" (co-authored by Stacia Broderick) is precisely what you are looking for: Agile Practices mapped to PMBOK guidelines with a dose of CMMI for good measure. This book truly is a polemic prescription for 'bridging' traditional & Agile project management. I got my copy last week from Amazon.com. It's a 'keeper'/reference I'll be using for years to come. Check out http://www.sligerconsulting.com/ for more discussion on this topic, and congratulations to Michele and Stacia!

Great point and something I'd love to see too as I...

2008-06-16T08:43:00.000Z

Great point and something I'd love to see too as I have also struggled to find any good material on the same.

Another area that I believe to be particularly weak is discussion on how to deliver creative (design lead) technology initiatives in an Agile manner.

I head up delivery for a large digital agency where we've struggled to adopt agile for projects that involve much creative and user experience time at the outset. These teams typically want to think holistically and struggle to think in the same manner as technologists that are able work on different functional areas in each sprint.

YES!!! Finally some other people that get that Ag...

2008-05-23T14:12:00.000Z

YES!!! Finally some other people that get that Agile as it is prescribed has its limitations. I have been preaching this on a daily basis and at times… have been persecuted for it. So kudos for blogging it about it. Has anyone thought about starting a community of interest regarding this topic?

Thanks for Nice Article. Some Good Agile Project M...

2008-05-20T17:10:00.000Z

Thanks for Nice Article. Some Good Agile Project Management topics explained on

Agile Project Management Questions & Answers

Hi Kelly,I saw a talk of Scott Ambler complaining ...

2008-05-08T21:08:00.000Z

Hi Kelly,

I saw a talk of Scott Ambler complaining about this too:

http://www.parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Evolving+Agile

There are some resources out there about agile governance and using PMBOK with agile. One author that writes a lot about it is Michele Sliger:

http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=edetail&ObjectType=COL&ObjectId=10365&tth=DYN&tt=siteemail&iDyn=2

I think she is writing a book on that.

Congratulations for your blog!

Joao Bosco