Can PRINCE2 be agile?
If the exam went ok I should shortly be a ‘PRINCE2 registered practitioner’. The problem is that at first sight there is a total mismatch between the top-down approach of Prince2 and the Agile approaches Ruby is at home with.
“The core value of an egalitarian meritocracy runs deep in the agile movement”, according to one of the founders of the Agile Movement1. PRINCE2, on the other hand, is all about control. Not only that, but even a quick glance at PRINCE2 diagrams shows its origins in the heyday of Waterfall methods.
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- Jim Highsmith, Agile Project Management p.9 [↩]