Keith Richards of Keith RichardsConsulting gave me my first formal training in DSDM nearly a decade ago and I am thrilled to have him contribute to our blog. If you would like to know more about Keith’s methods, you can purchase his book;
‘Agile Project Management: running PRINCE2 projects with DSDM Atern’ by Keith RIchards published by TSO’

What is Agile?

The word ‘agile’ has now become the hottest term being used in the methodology arena, but what exactly does it mean?

Amongst project managers and process mentors there is a broad understanding of the ethos of ‘agile’ but equally there is little agreement on the exact specifics of the genre.

Here are the views of KRC about the ‘new wave’ of approaches which are challenging the traditional view on how to deliver business benefit in the most effective way.

KRC believe that to be ‘agile’ means satisfying a set of criteria. These ‘criteria’ can be described as follws:

Responsive to change

Scope tolerant

Collaborative

Iterative

On time

Built incrementally

KRC also believe that the highest level of performance in the agile space can only be achieved if there is also compliance to a further three criteria. These are:

Business Focus

Quality Focus

Communication Focus

Over the coming weeks KRC will add to these criteria – in the meantime please get in touch if you would like to contribute.

Keith Richards