CHAPTER 1: A brave new world: introducing agile

Introduction

Agile project management is centre stage at the moment and quite rightly so. Missions, ventures or whatever else projects are dubbed have been around from the year dot and have been going wrong for just as long. Now a so-called new kid on the block has come along promising to change all that and for once it’s not hype. Seasoned veterans think they’ve seen it all before with other project management frameworks but this time it’s very different. There’s a revolution going on.

Chances are you’ve already heard quite a bit about the world of agile. There’s no multi-million pound marketing campaign behind the good press and it’s nearly ...

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