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

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.

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

Date

August 19, 2020

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