Agile Project Management

A new fashion emerged in the company I work for.

In Januari the management decided that we should start adopting the agile work method.

Without going in too deep on the details of agile, this is a method that tries to optimize the efficiency and productivity in a company.
It is working. At least, that is how I experience it.
Things are more structured, we can now identify the overhead, bottlenecks and just general failures in the organisation (testing comes to mind).

But now for the funny part:

It has been decided to get help from a consultant, an efficiency evangelist as I like to call him.
And a good decision is was, there is no way to implement such a strategy without anyone motivating and steering you in the right direction.

Many of the workmethods introduced by the consultant, specifically in the department I work in (which is consulting, training, implementation and support) are things i have been lobbying for as long as i can remember. Well actually from the time we purchased a helpdesk tool to assist in organizing support.
Now, after about seven years of lobbying, and working with the crappiest access tool ever (rentacoder sucks) to handle non-support project work, I’m working closely with the consultant to implement this in our helpdesk package.

Mixed emotions:

• finally things are going to be implemented ‘my way’, actually the consultants’s way but they are compatible.

• but i can’t help feeling that my previous attempts weren’t taken seriously…

Oh well, I’m not going to lose sleep over it anymore, I’m motivated as hell to get these new methods implemented. And that can never be a bad thing.

Just to clarify, the banner at the top is only there because i think it is funny, it does not reflect my experiences with agile.