How can they compare or rank one over another when screening candidates for employment. The explosion of agile project management methodologies has brought another problem to hiring managers. The problem experienced by hiring managers The more options you have, the easier it is to imagine that you made the wrong choice. The explosion of agile certification is making each less and less valuable since there are too many to choose from.Įven if we overcome the paralysis and make the choice, we end up less satisfied than if we had fewer options to choose from because if you have a lot of choices and you select one, it is easy to imagine that some other unchosen option would have been the better choice. In a nutshell, the researches above depict the real-life crisis faced by many, who are deciding on which agile certification to pursue, as the market is rapidly changing by leaps and bounds. He concluded by saying ‘ People usually think that giving more options is a better marketing strategy. In another research, when “Head & Shoulders” reduced the number of shampoo choices from 26 to 10 they had an increase of 10% in total sales. And then tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and of course tomorrow never comes. Why? Because with 50 funds to choose from, it’s so damn hard to decide which fund to choose, that you’ll just put it off until tomorrow.
You offer 50 funds - 10 per cent fewer employees participate than if you only offer five. And what she found is that for every 10 mutual funds the employer offered, the rate of participation went down by two per cent. In his book titled “the paradox of choice’ Barry Schwartz an American Psychologist states that a colleague of his got access to investment records from Vanguard, the gigantic mutual fund company of about a million employees and about 2,000 different workplaces. With so many agile project management methodologies to choose from, people find it very difficult to choose at all.
We have all seen it before, ‘decision paralysis’ – the complete lack of ability to decide. The explosion of choice produces ‘decision paralysis’, rather than liberation. The discussion points addressed by the article will be as follows: Decision paralysis Decrease of satisfaction The problem experienced by hiring managers and The creation of toxic project environments This article focuses on why the explosion and proliferation of agile project management frameworks is a bad thing. Each requires a different approach when it comes to how the project should be managed and delivered. Some projects are relatively straightforward and predictable. Just as we can’t assert that one medicine is best for everyone, because what is required will depend on the patient’s age, medical history and ailment, we can’t state that a particular agile methodology is suitable for all projects. Monthusi Ramontshonyana, PM Trainer, InnoLead Consulting
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