PMcrunch

Schumacher was right on years ago in his seminal book “Small is Beautiful”. The subtitle “as if People Mattered” is very appropriate for this comparison between large and small, as the struggle between large and small continues, and by and large people are treated as more important on smaller projects. In the software development field, Agile is small!

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Agile Development, or Scrum, is a very popular topic these days. Dr. J. Davidson Frame, a long time PMI Fellow, spoke about it to the New Jersey Chapter of the PMI on 18 September 2007. Organizations do not need to choose one or the other. It is all about goals, and getting from where you are now to the next level.

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I recently read a forum entry where someone was looking for advice on PM tools and PM software used across the globe for IT needs. The person mentioned that their company had some general tools like Critical Path, PERT etc., and various models for Estimation. The question was “What would be best software to support all these tools + models and standards like CMMI or ITIL, then support for SEI – indicator template for measurement analysis, Risk Management alerting + Alerting on Change management etc. Also requested were opinions on using lines of code as a metric.

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There would seem to be a mismatch between these two approaches – but then again, maybe not. It depends, I think, on how it is handled from a management perspective, and it could be a great experiment! It seems that the answer could lie in the Work Breakdown Structure.

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