Program Number: C020-15092009
Agile Project Management: Rethinking PMBOK, CMM, ISO
9000 and Other Standards
Category Type: 3
Subject Areas
Knowledge: 10
Process: 06
Application/Specific Interest Groups: 30
Activity Sponsor: PMINJ Chapter (C020)
PDUs: - 1.5
Leadership - 0.0
Strategic - 0.0
Technical - 1.5
In the information technology arena, agile and
iterative software development techniques are “in.” The
underlying premise of these techniques is that when carrying
out high risk, dynamic projects – significant traits of many
IT projects – it is important to incorporate learning into
the development effort. This means that as a project is
carried out, it makes sense to take stock of what has been
done so far in order to guide future development efforts. In
the agile and iterative world, the traditional Waterfall
development model – which is rigid and fails to accommodate
risk – is “out.”
In his presentation, Dr. J. Davidson Frame presents a brief
overview of the basic features of a number of agile and
iterative development techniques, including Scrum,
time-boxed scheduling, and RUP. He discusses why so many
companies and government agencies are moving away from
Waterfall development methodologies and are trying to employ
agile and iterative principles into their software
development processes.
He also examines the implications of these approaches for a
number of international standards that affect how projects
are carried out, specifically: PMBOK Guide, Capability
Maturity Model, and ISO 9000. He addresses provocative
questions, such as: What value does the WBS have in an age
of agile development? When dealing with dynamic project
efforts, why would we strive for repeatable processes as
required by Level 2 of CMM? When trying to achieve project
quality, why would we emphasize statistical process control
over inspection, when quality on unique knowledge-based
projects must be rooted in effective inspection?
Dr. J. Davidson Frame
Bio:
David is Academic Dean of the University of Management and
Technology (UMT). From 1979 until 1998, he was Professor of
Management Science at George Washington University, where he
served as Chairman of the Management Science Department and
established GWU’s project management program. He is a PMI
Fellow and recipient of PMI’s Distinguished Contribution
Award and Person of the Year Award. He served on the PMI
Board of Directors for a total of eleven years. He is author
of ten books, including the business best-seller, Managing
Projects in Organizations.
Dr. Frame has been a major player in project management
education and training since the late 1970s. He has written
eight books and more than 30 scholarly articles on the
subject. His Managing Projects in Organizations (2003) is a
business best seller. His most recent book, Managing Risk in
Organizations, was published in 2003.
Dr. Frame served as a Professor of Management Science at The
George Washington University (1979-1998), where he was
Chairman of the Management Science Department (1988-89), and
Director of the International Center for Project Management
Excellence (1995-98). He also established a Master of
Science in Project Management degree program at The George
Washington University.
In 1999, Dr. Frame was elected to the 13-person Board of
Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI), where
he helped to lead the 150,000-member organization until
2003. From 1990-1996, Dr. Frame served as PMI's Director of
Certification. He was the organization's Director of
Educational Services from 1997 to 1998. He won PMI's
Distinguished Service Award (1994) and Person of the Year
Award (1995). In 2004, he was made a Fellow of PMI.
Dr. Frame has trained more than 35,000 managers worldwide
over the past two decades. He has taught technology
management, project management, and general management
courses at organizations such as Morgan Stanley, Credit
Suisse, Fannie Mae, AT&T, Motorola, Sprint, Lucent,
Boeing, IBM, and Marriott.
He holds the following degrees: a Ph.D. and an M.A. from
American University, where he focused on development
economics and quantitative methods; and a B.A. from the
College of Wooster, with a focus on history and mathematics.
He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
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