Comments on: Chaos Report 2006

By: Lee Fischman

Lee Fischman — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:14:00 +0000

I’ve decided a grass roots effort might be interesting counterpoint to the Standish report. I created a single-question survey here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=oOq7Hzgz6BCYZfgZoNC72w_3d_3d

And will be posting results here:

http://swprojectsurvey.blogspot.com/

By: Pawel Brodzinski

Pawel Brodzinski — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:45:00 +0000

My approach is that agile isn't a silver bullet. No methodology is. I agree agile methods suit to specific environments while in others there are better methods to do the job. I like to point Glen Alleman and his articles about project management methodologies as an example you should always look for solution individually. There are projects which should be managed in different than agile way.

On the other hand Chaos Report omits many small projects which, this is my wild guess, fails with similar frequency. However in this case agile can often be a solution which helps to achieve success, as far as business environment you work in supports these techniques.

By: Javo

Javo — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:49:00 +0000

Although I have not read your other articles, I particularly focus on this and ask about what things have you done to manage the projects that do not fall within these dire statistics. Otherwise we should assume that "what saves us and release" is the inability of our customers.

It is true that the improvement may be occurring, at least I hope so fervently. In my case, I work with hybrid methodologies of software development and management based on Scrum.
Think most of the problems reported by the Chaos-Report can be solved with AGILE methodologies?
Any opinion?

Best Regasrds, Javier Santillán.

By: Pawel Brodzinski

Pawel Brodzinski — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:08:00 +0000

Thank you for warm words. I’m happy to see more people (especially experienced ones) share that common sense approach to project management.

By: JanetMorrison

JanetMorrison — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:42:00 +0000

I have been in systems management since I was 22 (I’m now 57). I became the CIO of a pharmaceutical company and now consult with a major media company in NY. I have a lot of experience, and a similar outlook to yours – just say how things actually are! I feel your stories are so on target! In fact, over the years, I have developed ways of either exploiting or sidestepping these very identifiable patterns and even learned to have some fun with it. But I also found our advice on hiring very good, managing a career extremely good. You’re a smart guy, maybe one of the smartest around. I just wanted to tell you I enjoyed your comments. Nice site and nice of you to be generous with your advice to younger people. It’s important. Thank you.