Scrum vs Waterfall

The other day there was a comment on LinkedIn regarding the death of project management in favor of agile.  I could not disagree more.  I am both Scrum Master Certified and a Project Management Professional.  There are some elements of agile that I use in my current projects, even though I do not do software development.  But even as agile is popular today, the principles in the project management framework work.

I believe that project managers should use the tools that they need to get the project done.  There might be areas of a waterfall project that needs to have sprints or to develop an minimal viable product (MVP) or there may be elements within an agile development that need to use the planning tools of a waterfall style project.  The project management framework is something that actually works.

Project managers should add agile to their toolbox.  There are many ways to do it and it is a handy thing to know.  As I am working on my projects, I am looking for areas to make the project and the end project better.  After all a project is iterative, just like the MVP.