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My thoughts on agile

My thoughts on agile

From the course: The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

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My thoughts on agile

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- So we've looked at PRINCE but the second of the three conflicting methodologies that are out there at the moment is Agile. Now Agile's only been around for about five years whereas PRINCE is probably coming to the end of its life a little bit, Agile is just starting out on its trajectory. It's becoming more popular all the time. And the idea of Agile is that when you start a project, you don't really know what's going to happen later on. If you're say doing up a house, you don't know til you peel off the wallpaper what's going to be underneath there. There could be fungus or anything. So the idea of Agile is there's no point in spending ages making a really big complicated plan at the start of your project because it's probably not going to happen. So it would make more sense to have a very flexible, approximate plan and vary as you go along. So at each step, you have a re-think and you say, okay, here's where we are, what are we going to do next and you vary as you go along. Now…

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