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Sport has been used as an analogy for some ideas of engineering. One of the more unique ideas has been to use it to describe the process of project management. Program management is a well structured process and has enforced a bunch of its processors. With the advent of world wide web and the speed required to deliver some huge software projects. People have found unique methods to approach these familiar challenges. Agile product managers. Scrum methodology. Iterative cycles. Open source ideas. Delivering early and often.Various project managers have used the large impact game in a new direction. As an example of using the action of rugby to describe a new and exciting approach. They have designed on the scrum concept and developed the model to include other aspects of the game.The game of rugby is truly a contact sport. Managers think and say networking is a contact sport, but so if project management to a large degree. As an thought one of the common themes of rugby is having to resolve problems.The theory of rugby project management is just an extension of the scrum which is definitely considered in Agile. Rugby also showcases aspects of sometimes congregate and decide the ball back in order to make forward progress. Another important aspect of rugby is a concept of self organization.Bunches of team mates will often organize on demand as the game progresses and as rules dictate. Many of the concepts can be extrapolated into managing projects in an agile fashion. Agile project management calls for much shorter and faster iterative tasks.The whole idea is to divide tasks into backlogs of activities and write software into delivered code as soon as possible. Some of the lessons learned of agile are quickness, changeability and agility. The thoughts can be used in just about all software development projects, but sometimes with problems.It's quite possible to use my concept in business intelligence reports. Some tools such as Actuate lend themselves easily to the fast project enhancement process. The design is to connect with the product owner sooner rather than later as a partner coder.The entire project team forms into scaled-down scrum like units and meet daily to review and go through backlogs. With the target of delivering real stable solutions in 4-6 week increments. Its fairly easy to approach projects like report writing with these rules of thumb in place. After one is familiar with the rugby paradigm it will become second nature. It's much bigger impact to have people including customers working earlier in the cycle.This project manager MBA discusses a new approach to managing Hospitality projects. Making use of approaches borrowed from rugby called rugby project management.
