How many project management paradigms do you have in your organisation?

If you are trying to do upfront design upfront and iteration, you probably 1 have a problem.

If you have fixed deadlines and fixed scope, you probably have a problem.

If you are trying to centrally control of design and technology, and delegate decision making to teams, then you probably have a problem.

If you are trying to work in an agile way and using waterfall governance processes (or vice versa), you probably have a problem.

  1. ‘probably’, because, as Simon Wardley regularly points out, different paradigms make sense in different contexts. However, it should be a choice, not an accident. ↩︎