This Toastmaster presentation involved discussing a technical topic with a non-technical audience. Since many people find the topic of project management confusing, a comparison between the Waterfall and Agile project management workflows offers a way to approach the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For years, the waterfall workflow was standard operation in many corporations. This usually meant quarterly target dates. Agile brought much faster and more frequent target dates which had a huge impact on production. For many projects, especially software related projects, the advantages are obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many businesses have found, that some types of work have limited success with an Agile workflow, such as projects involving daily scheduling or long term database monitoring tasks. A concept known as “bimodal” was coined by Gartner, Inc. to refer to the two workflow styles. Mode 1 for tasks that fair better using the traditional workflow, and mode 2 for those using the more rapid agile approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a former employee of Gartner, I participated in both, and saw advantages and challenges with both. This will be discussed in an upcoming post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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