PMI: Please Get Out of Scrum

Stacey Christiansen

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Serious Scrum

6 min readDec 31, 2019

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As it stands today, the PMBOK is in direct conflict with the foundational principles of the Agile Manifesto.

The Project Management Institute is a 50-year-old organization dedicated to the practice of project, program, and portfolio management. Their mission as stated on their website is to “… work on your behalf to advance the project management profession worldwide.”

The group has also authored the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge). It’s the bible for project management. Seriously, that sucker is 756 pages…

Stacey Christiansen

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Former leader in software dev, ecommerce. Lifelong learner. Writer of whatever moves me.

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