Governance and scope creep is always one of the major problems in any project.\u00a0 Limited resources and continuous demand from non-project needs both elongate projects and spread resources too thin.\u00a0 I was speaking with a technology friend about project governance methods and he pointed out that his organization used a strict \u201cagility method\u201d that I found quite amusing.\u00a0 While it\u2019s quite a nice structure for governance, I found it anything but agile.\u00a0 His organization\u2019s agility method included strict adherence to published timeframes for tasks and a strict ban on management interference in project tasks.<\/p>\n
I rather like the thought of management not being able to request an already used resource and shifting the focus of that resource until the task is complete.\u00a0 In this method, if management needed to change the resource\u2019s task, they would need to justify to a governance committee the reasons why, and the governance committee would be instructed by policy only to allow changes under the most dire of circumstances.\u00a0 You can see why I think this is a wonderful project management tool.\u00a0 The absolute prevention of scope creep not only controls cost and timing, but when your resources are often working more than full time, often management requests don\u2019t mean that work gets shifted, but rather that work gets added.\u00a0 This is unfair to your resources since projects often can\u2019t really get pushed, and the resource can\u2019t say no to management.<\/p>\n
On the other hand you can see why I find this agility method amusing.\u00a0 It\u2019s anything but agile.\u00a0 What the agility method does is ensure that once a project has been approved, staffed, and funded, nothing can change it\u2019s course.\u00a0 Until task completion, the project resources are pretty well committed, and only after large chunks of tasks are completed can periodic review of velocity and direction be reviewed.<\/p>\n
From what I understand, there are many types of agility methods, and I\u2019ve only heard of one of them.\u00a0 What I do seem to know generically is that the method seems to provide a working structure that allows projects to be completed in the most efficient manner with the least interruption.\u00a0 The actual agility policies that are created may differ than the one I described above, but in the end, I\u2019m not sure \u201cagility\u201d is the word I would have used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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