Agile Project Management: How to Succeed in the Face of Changing Project Requirements

Classic PM treats projects as distinct entities with well-defined and mostly static boundaries.

Agile PM views projects as a core part of the business, whose boundaries are dynamic and shift with the business needs.

Integrating projects into the business requires developing the organizational and project management capabilities that enable the project manager to look outside of the project boundaries.

Agile PM looks to integrate the project and business environments, and thus their decision-making processes.

Business and project decision making are separated in the matrix management model.

Matrix management integrates the projects with the organization, but not with the business objectives.

Matrix management is an effective project enabler in larger companies, but it can be an impediment to smaller organizations.

A project-based organizational approach that integrates business and project decision making is better suited to the agile PM environment.