Most of my life I have been involved with projects. Many of them large, complex and involving creating innovative software products; my career has not been for the fainthearted.
During these last 25 years a great deal of water has passed over the dam in the development of Project Management methodologies. Also process based technologies have made for a more systematized approach to creating successful products.
During this time many of these methods have become institutionalized, certified, authorized and pasteurized. We now have PMBOK, Prince2, Agile, Scrum, CMMI, ISO, ITIL and a whole lot more to choose from to prove our credentials in an industry with little discipline to start. Times have changed.
Agile may be been a late comer to the Project Management ball, celebrating a ten year birthday, but it has made a huge impact. Because of the radical nature and departure from “other project management” methods then in vogue, it got noticed. It also focused heavily on software development, which seemed to be (and perhaps still is), more art than science.
thanks, you really write in a way everyone – including me
– can@is able to understand, even if someone does not know very much with these things. But what exactly do you mean with your second paragraph? Frank