Project Management Methodologies

In a recent post on his blog, Herding Cats, Glen Alleman talks about Project Management 2.0.  In the post he touches on an extremely important point that I see come up again and again in project management and software development.  Top-down vs. bottom-up approaches are neither good nor bad in and of themselves.  This is not a religious crusade, despite the passion that is sometimes shown by both sides.  Rather, a well-run project will involve rigorous planning and specification alongside a willingness to respond flexibly to the change that will inevitably occur (this describes well-run operations too).  Moving the discussion beyond name calling and buzz words to focus on outcomes and the processes that yield those outcomes is an obvious, but necessary step to improve the practice of project management.

Herding Cats on Project 2.0