Traditional Project Management and SDLC methodology is hitting a wall. Working for a mid-size company that is reactive to very fluid business conditions means that all departments and especially IT need to work better, smarter and be more productive with less people. The traditional project management watrerfall and gated SDLC methodologies lose favor very fast when we are telling internal customers that they cannot change the 100 page requirement document without first updating a project charter, documenting a change request and then getting that change approved by a change control board. The customer throws up their hands and says this is crazy or worse silently goes through the motion to get the change in but then complains to everyone how unresponsive IT is to the business.
We have been in that boat for some time and that boat has been sinking. Even applying band aids as fast as possible by calling the Methodology "Lite", taking out steps, and reducing the pages in the documents by 25% has not kept the boat from swaying dangerously between customer demands and the PMO rocks.We need to change the boat!
