Cutter IT Journal: The Evolution of Agile Project Management: Part II

Jim Highsmith
It's a Big Tent Agile project management can cover a wide range of projects and organizational cultures. Given the right structuring, APM can coexist with other project management frameworks — even the PMI's PMBOK Guide® or the SEI's CMMI®.

Let's Follow the Lead of Agriculture and Manufacturing

Paul Bassett

In the US, agriculture employed 63% of the workforce in 1840 compared with just 2% today. In 1943, the number of US blue-collar employees reached its peak, accounting for at least 40% of the workforce. That number has steadily declined since then to about 8%, and before the end of the century may well fall to the same level as that of agriculture [3].