Purpose

Unit 2's discussion is a sequel to the one from the Unit 1 Discussion: Managing a Global Project, where we assumed that the project was best suited to a traditional project management approach. The goal of Unit 2's discussion is to get you thinking about how agile project management fits into the broader strategic picture. As a project manager, you will need to make decisions regarding the best project management approach to adopt (traditional, agile, or hybrid) and to then justify your decisions to your team and sponsor (and other senior executives). The discussion this Unit will help you jump start that thought process while also developing skills to make and exercise decisions related to selecting the most appropriate project management approach.

Task

The scenario below is an updated version of the one presented in the Unit 1 Discussion: Managing a Global Project. Added information is highlighted in bold, while information that is no longer relevant has been struck through

For this discussion, again, consider yourself a project manager of a large project (say 200+ personnel) that is geographically dispersed across several countries and continents. Suppose that this project is developing a new high-tech product that requires the integrated efforts of R&D, product management, sales, marketing, human resources, CFO office, operations, etc. The vision of the product is clear but realizing that vision for the product has some fuzzy aspects on account of emerging market-altering technology that could soon impact certain project features and hence affect the definition and implementation of those features. However, you cannot wait until that impact becomes clear because the marketing window is tight and there are other value-generating features which are amply clear and could (and should) be developed soon and marketed! You report to your company's PMO Vice President who holds you responsible for the success of the project and jointly responsible (along with sales and marketing) for the success of the product. You can also assume that your PMO team has excellent project management knowledge and skills and that the project is best managed using the traditional/waterfall approach, but only a few members of the team are well-versed in agile methodologies. Your project sponsor and executives have extraordinarily little awareness and knowledge of agile methodologies.

In your initial post:

1. Justify why an agile approach would be appropriate for this project and outline why the Scrum methodology would be reasonable to consider.
2. Identify and assess the challengesboth strategic and tacticalyou are likely to encounter if you recommend and embark on an agile project management approach (using the Scrum methodology).
3. Propose how you (along with the few team members who are well-versed in agile methodologies) would introduce and infuse agile (and the Scrum methodology) in a manner that addresses the challenges you identified in (2) above. Your coverage should address changes to culture, communication, decision making, values, artifacts, value creation, etc.
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