"But it's not on the Project Plan!", Agile for PMI PMs

Mike Griffiths (LeadingAnswers)

Beginners Program · Management

Wednesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall A

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This introductory session is aimed at traditional PMI project managers who would like to learn how traditional and agile project approaches map and conflict. While the end goal of traditional and agile projects are largely the same (successful projects, happy stakeholders) the routes that each approach takes to get there varies considerably. This presentation explains agile terminology in plain English and introduces leadership principles as the common ground for bridging the traditional to agile divide. Adopting agile methods does not mean giving up valid estimating, planning, and progress reporting techniques; instead it means considering some smart alternatives to these important tasks. Learn how agile addresses the PMI process areas and offers some great new tools for your project management toolkit.

Mike Griffiths is a project manager and trainer based in Calgary. Mike was involved in the creation of DSDM in 1994 and has been using agile methods ever since (primarily Scrum, XP and FDD.) Mike is active in the agile community and serves on the board of the Agile Alliance and the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). He maintains the www.leadinganswers.com blog and is a frequent contributor to agile and PM related journals and conferences.