Agile expands in Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong

Posted by lward on Feb 15, 2022 in PMChat Bloggers, Uncategorized | 0 comments

What would an ESI Top Ten PM Trends for 2014 look like if ESI didn’t have some mention of Agile development and project management as part of it? Well, this year is no exception. This year, though, the focus is on Asia, and specifically Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong. I have many colleagues in Asia (ESI’s Asian headquarters is in Singapore, a country I’ve traveled to more than 20 times when I worked for ESI) and they tell me that information technology project managers (ITPM) in this vast region are acutely aware of Agile but they want to know more. In fact, they want to know a lot more! Certainly there are pockets of excellent practice of Agile; but, in fact, there’s a lot of resistance to implementing Agile as well. And, what’s interesting is this resistance isn’t just coming from middle managers, who some have called the great “unwashed” who everyone likes to blame everything on. No, the resistance, surprisingly enough, is coming from practicing project managers as well as from PMO heads and the reason is they firmly believe Agile is just a fad.

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Agile expands in Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong