I was recently invited to be a guest speaker at the “Conscious Software Development Telesummit”. I am very pleased to participate in this event because the idea of “Conscious Software Development” is very consistent with the views I’ve been advocating on Agile Project Management.
Some people think that Agile has made all forms of project management obsolete and irrelevant. The idea that I share with the idea of “Conscious Software Development” is that we shouldn’t “throw the baby out with the bath water” in order to adopt an agile development process. There is still some value in doing conscious upfront planning as long as it is done intelligently in the right proportions and many situations call for a mix of traditional project management discipline and Agile development processes blended together in the right proportions to fit the situation.
The idea of the Conscious Software Telesummit is that there are a number of common issues that continue to plague many software development projects such as:
- Deploying late
- Going over budget
- With missing and buggy features
- Requirements scope creep
- Team miscommunication and conflicts
- “Shelfware” that is just not adopted by users
- Projects that are not aligned to the organization’s strategy
Michael Smith has organized a number of speakers (including myself) at the Conscious Software Development Telesummit which is November 10th – 21st 2014. My interview is on “What We Don’t Know that We Don’t Know About Agile Project Management”
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