With the emergence of Project Management as a profession, formal planning processes are often regarded as absolutely essential to the success of projects and businesses. However, while well documented processes of planning with set time lines and task allocations allow everyone in a project or business to understand exactly what needs to be done when, there is also the danger that too formal and rigid planning practices can hinder success by reducing flexibility in an ever-changing environment.
Author » Leon Coetzee
Leon Coetzee
COO @ MIH SWAT
I am responsible for the day-to-day operating activities of MIHSWAT. This includes managing and developing people, driving change, accountability and excellence, directing company operations to meet budget, establishing and enhancing SWAT’s processes and infrastructure, and ultimately for the internal implementation of SWAT’s objectives. My personal work interests are project management and specifically agile development. Recently I’ve also been researching how to set up and run business and corporate incubators.
06 Oct 2008
Being relatively new to the Scrum way of doing things (2 projects in progress and starting a 3rd), I thought it may be useful to start a series of blog posts on our experience of Scrum. To kick off I will start with our understanding of what scrum is.
