Stephen Cohen's Thoughts on Agile and Project Recovery

There is a pretty lively debate going around agile circles. It started with a simple question ... what does it mean when people say a project is or is not Agile? My response is a simple one; Agile isn't something you are or something you do. Agile is...

To my customers I beg your forgiveness. I know I am hard to deal with. I am demanding, unrelenting, and all too often I break most if not all of the rules as you knew them. But that's not really important. What is important is delivery. Getting out tools...

I often hear Agile and Project Recovery demeaned by those practicing more "formal" methodologies as unpredictable. Predictability is absolutely necessary to manage a project of any real size. Key indicators such as earned values cost and schedule variance...

I have a serious marketing problem. It seems Recovery for a project is a dirty word. You see, needing to recover a project implies the project has failed. No one really wants to admit they have failed... at least not on their project. We, as an industry...