Driving to work today I was bombarded by all kinds of "project management" activities:
- Road construction ranging from our Billion $ TREX with many layers of subcontractors and coordination with public access to a small curb repair project I drive by along a surface street going to the office.
- Building construction projects ranging from downtown high rises to home remodels.
- Advertisements for jobs in technology ranging from defense satellite Program Managers, to second shift shop floor planners in pharmaceutical plant
- Fall term high school schedules, complete with class room improvements, field trip planning, volunteer assignments and coordination and fund raising goals.
- Launch vehicle operations (Titan 2 last flight) scheduling of the 10's of 1,000's of details to get it the fly on time.
All of these "projects" have Project Management activities in some way or another.
- Are the project management processes (beyond the simple list of PMBOK processes) similar across this small and contrived sample set?
- Is the uncertainty, value flow, customer interaction behaviors, work cycles and other DoI target attributes similar across these projects?
- In such a way that the impact of the DoI could be seen or even measured?
- How does Agile Project Management benefit them in specific and measurable ways?
I ask these questions for a specific purpose...
If the goal of Agile Project Management is to be generalized outside of software development, what are the success criteria for this effort?
