It's all about managing ideas and making stuff useful. My major interests are business analysis, project and portfolio management, user-focused design and usability, knowledge management and innovation, but I'm interested in any side road that means ending up with an improved result...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
PRINCE2 and Agility
Over the past couple of years, I've dabbled around the fringes of agile programming/project management mostly looking at XP, but I have to confess that I've always struggled to reconcile agility and the structured control delivered by PRINCE2. I've always erred towards early, hands-on prototypes (whether paper or digital), prioritised requirements lists, and facilitated, collaborative meetings, so I was delighted to discover that all three of these feature strongly in DSDM. I've now taken the plunge, and am reading (the - so far - excellent) short tome on merging DSDM with PRINCE2, "Agile Project Management" by Keith Richards. I'm starting to come around to the idea that web projects might be ideally suited to a stripped-down mix of the two (perhaps something more PRIDE on the PRINCE2 side). Certainly the inherent difficulties of managing rapidly moving web projects within a PRINCE2 change management framework appear to be addressed by such an approach, as would integrating early and frequent usability tests.
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