Agile Project Management: Mainstream at Last?

There's an excellent writeup on the LeadingAnswers blog site about the rise, fall, and rediscovery of Agile Project Management. I like the "Universal Lifecycle of New Technology" which outlines how ideas take flight, and then, after people inevitably misapply or overuse it, it fails, only to be resurrected successfully later with a slight twist.

I've seen this happen with a variety of non-technology processes and ideas as well, including TQM, Six Sigma, Critical Chain, PMOs, and---dare I say it---Project Management in general, all of which are currently in various stages of this lifecycle.

The article is well worth reading. For fans of Agile Project Management or those curious in the concepts, LeadingAnswers is a valuable site.

By the way, as a proponent of Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm book on marketing disruptive technology, I was also interested to see that the article has a link to a white paper titled, "Crossing the Agile Chasm."

LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog: The Rise, Fall and Rediscovery of Agile Methods