When is AGILE the Best Project Management Method

[#1]

Hello Agile Community!

Thanks so much for your attendance at the 2019 Esri User Conference as well as the Lightning presentation on "When is AGILE the Best Project Management Method"!  I am excited to have met several of you during the course of the conference whether it was in the lightning talk, the first Project Management in GIS SIG, the Technical Workshop on Esri Best Practices:  AGILE Project Management, or our user presentation (Tamra O'Halloran) on Agile and Esri to Optimize Production and Maximize Customer Satisfaction.  When I first presented on AGILE 6 years ago, there was only 1 person in attendance.  As you can see from the attached photo, the AGILE conversation has grown immensely!   

Lets continue the discussion throughout the year regarding the #Agile Methodology, helping support the #AGILECommunity as we all strive to make our projects successful, constantly changing to make sure our efforts are always pointed towards success.

Thanks again for attending!

Lana Tylka

ltylka@esri.com

[George_Thompson]

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[GuyNoll]

Great presentation, and the key takeaway for me is the recognition that Agile methods are a best-practice when customers expect collaboration. As software functionality is continually and sometimes rapidly changing, I think smart executive sponsors should always encourage their teams to be collaborative. Otherwise, customers can create requirement traps for their organizations that prevent adequate assessment of the need for workflow and resource change management;‌

[RonVincent2]

You guys may want to look at DevOps, in particular Lean product development and value steams mapping and analysis. DevOps is the next evolution of Agile/Scrum. Let me know if I can help (rovin@microsoft.com).