“There’s a lot of companies that just want to jump on the Agile bandwagon and many times it’s a superficial kind of thing. It might be just a brute-force approach to get it done because they see it as a way of getting products to market quicker and they wind up working people overtime and weekends to get things done quicker, and call that Agile. That’s not the right approach, obviously. Agile is heavily dependent on training and coaching to do it right. You can’t just take a cookbook approach like Waterfall and do step 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. It really requires some good intelligence among everyone on the team–developers, Scrum masters, etc. Everyone has to be intelligent enough to figure out how to do things and adapt the process and the product as they go along, so it requires a lot more skill. At a corporate level, it could require some corporate change, because there’s significant cultural changes that may be required. Agile requires breaking down walls and barriers and developing more of a collaboration.” –  Chuck Cobb, author of the best-selling book The Project Manager’s Guide to Mastering Agile, excerpted from the article Traditional vs Agile Project Management for Innovators, @ InnovationExcellence, click here to read the article in its entirety.  [end]

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