I promise in the next few weeks to concentrate on other subjects other than AGILE and its deficiencies, but my readership statistics show that AGILE is a popular subject. I also feel I have to keep up with my protagonists comments, which are appearing not just on my blog but all over the net.
At the moment, the net is buzzing with AGILE evangelist websites and Blogs making statements like “the AGILE manifesto is the equivalent to Newton 4th Law of Motion”. When someone takes a fanatical belief in anything without proper empirical evidence you have got to start thinking!!. Please see my post Storm in a Tea Cup. I really think these evangelists do not expect us to engage our brains. They think if they keep repeating the common look-up list of humorous slogans about AGILE’s invincibility, we will all be conditioned into turning a blind eye to the detail and asking for verifiable and independent evidence concerning this approach’s claimed scalability and prowess over other methods /approaches. At the moment the whole IT methods industry from Waterfall to RUP to AGILE and SCRUM is in need of consolidation based on some sound independent research. As we speak, large corporations take huge “flip flop” financial gambles adopting this method over another, largely based on the word of lightweight fee-earning consultants.
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My IT Management Philosophy has always been based on four key principals
which I have always considered to be independent of the current ‘flavour of the month’ in terms of IT development /project management methods:-
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Sun 13th August 2006 at 01:37 PM, Filed in Book Reviews
One of my favourite Project Management Blogs is Carpe Factum run by Timothy Johnson. Carpe Factum. Timothy’s blog discuss’s all kinds of topics but essentially he focuses on the dry subject of Project Management (my passion). Timothy has a good blog writing style and manages to make often quite serious points in an interesting and humorous way. Bearing in mind the subject of his Blog this is a real challenge!
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Available on Amazon - Race Through the Forest A Project Management Fable - By Timothy Johnson
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Further too “Can Government Policy Reduce IT Project Failure Rates? PART 1” it is clear that the UK Government needs to transplant US legislation to the UK with specific legislative adjustments in order to ensure that both the government and non-government sectors are treated equally i.e
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Quite recently, I had dinner with a couple who have been friends of my family for many years. Unfortunately we got onto a subject I am very passionate about which is IT Project Management. The topic was, “Can the government put together legislation necessary to eradicate the Wild West that is the IT industry?” My own partner Jackie and her friend Jeanett (a consultant with LOGICA) were convinced that the problems, behind the annual 70% IT project failure rate were “totally beyond the control of the government”.
Please Do Something Stupid!!
I pointed out during a challenging exchange that the only reason why the building and engineering industries had 95% + project success rates is because of strong regulation /legislation backed up by local government inspection and enforced professionalism i.e. need for chartered qualifications for architects, surveyors and engineers etc.
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