Summary: Play Now: Sorry. Your browser cannot play this video. In this video we answer the following questions about Agile Project Management from Alicia Aurichio, PMP: What is the most common or widely-used form of Agile? What types of industries are using Agile? What are the success metrics of adopting Agile in the organization? Some business groups are adopting "Agile" for business processes, as well. Is there an Agile business method that is different from the traditional Agile Software Development methodologies? How do you obtain hands-on experience in Agile PM, if you are not currently working for an organization that uses agile? Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Cornelius Fichtner: Hello and welcome to Episode # 271. This is the Project Management Podcast™ at www.pm-podcast.com and I am Cornelius Fichtner. Welcome back. Today, I'm going to discuss and answer a number of questions that I have received from Alicia Aurichio. They are all about Agile project management. She sent them to me pretty much out of the blue via email and I thought: You know what? They would make a good basis for a Project Management Podcast episode. And here is Alicia's first question. It's all about the various flavors of Agile. Here she is herself with the question… Alicia Aurichio: What is the most common or widely-used form of Agile? Cornelius Fichtner: Alicia asked this question because she realized that while Agile project management seems to be becoming synonymous with Scrum or even the CSM certification that that is not necessarily true. She also notices that in her experience when you're looking for a project management job and they talk about Agile, they either mean Scrum or some in-house Agile methodology that they developed. So what is the most common or widely-used form of Agile? Based on the results from the 8th annual state of Agile survey from version 1, it is indeed Scrum. As you can see in this graphic here. More than 50% of their respondents said: "We use Scrum as our preferred Agile methodology in house. And then there are also those that use a mix of Scum and XP. But as you can see, Alicia also correctly identified that there is this custom hybrid. So you take a few of these various Agile methodologies and you mix them together so that it makes sense in your organization. Scrumban is also there. There's Kanban. We have Lean and we also have the others that would be things like Crystal or feature-driven development. These are the minor Agile methodologies there. But obviously, Scrum is king the Agile methodology world. Alicia's second is this… Alicia Aurichio: What types of industries are using Agile? Cornelius Fichtner: In the early days of Agile, the focus was on software development. You can see this clearly represented in the first few words you'll find on the Agile Manifesto website. They read: "We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and by helping others do it." But as time progressed, more and more people realized how applicable Agile was to other industries, to their industries as well. And today, you might very well say that any industry should be able to adopt Agile in one form or another. You can see this trend of Agile moving away from being IT-centric. When you take a look at the website of the Agile Alliance in particular, take a look at their annual conferences and you'll see that more and more presentations were added to the agenda every year discussing non-IT applications of Agile. Here are a few titles that you'll find: Scrum in Sales, Agile in Academics, Lessons in Agile Product Development, Agile in an embedded, product-line development, Rapid Product Design in the wild, and also Agile in the Federal Space. Those are just six that I found. There are many more of these non-IT applications of Agile. I have one more example for you, very close to my heart and that is the use of Ag
