| It's a Big Tent Agile project management can cover a wide range of projects and organizational cultures. Given the right structuring, APM can coexist with other project management frameworks — even the PMI's PMBOK Guide® or the SEI's CMMI®. It Can't Be All Things to All People The principles and practices of agile project management are incompatible with the PMBOK, Six Sigma, or CMMI. When the prevailing culture stresses prescriptive planning and execution, APM is not a good choice. Politics always trump process — any process. | "We need to incorporate project managers into the agile quest, not attempt to keep them on the outside looking in." - Jim Highsmith, Guest Editor
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In our next installment on the evolution of agile project management, we witness the many faces of agile. While Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Doug DeCarlo discusses the role of the Extreme Project Manager and ponders a project's "energy field," Donna Fitzgerald shows how agile and the PMBOK can find common ground. And David Anderson sees XP as a stalking horse for ... Six Sigma?
