Agile Approaches on Large Projects in Large Organizations

Creativity and productivity, rapid adaptation to change, value for the customer—these are just some of the advantages of implementing agile practices in project work. However, agile practices have been most widely and successfully undertaken in the context of small, colocated teams working on small software projects, known as the “agile sweet spot.”

In this monograph, Brian Hobbs and Yvan Petit explore the use and impact of agile outside of the agile sweet spot. Through a case study and survey questionnaire, they uncover research questions that have remained largely unexamined in the literature, on the project level as well as on the organizational level.

An illuminating study of this emerging field, Agile Approaches on Large Projects in Large Organizations opens the door to further investigation on the future role of project managers, the use of scaling frameworks at the program and portfolio levels, and the effects of DevOps, one of the recent trends in agile software development.

Dr. Brian Hobbs PMP founded the Project Management Chair in 2007and held the Chair until 2015. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering, an MBA and a PhD in Management. He has been a professor at the School of Management of the University of Quebec at Montreal in the Master's Program in Project Management for more than thirty years. This program, of which he is a past director, is accredited by PMI’s Global Accreditation Center.