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STANFORD NEWS SERVICE; Stanford and Salesforce.com Present Project Management 2.0 in Action

June 18, 2009 from Project, Program and Portfolio Management


Project management has no one size fits all approach, but the agile rollout at salesforce.com holds lessons for many companies looking to change their production processes to meet today s challenges. Stanford University s Advanced Project Management Program now presents the company s compelling success story as a real-world example of core principles taught in the certificate s overview course, Converting Strategy Into Action. In today s complex, fast-paced business environments, traditional project management as usual practices don t work; companies need to combine proven approaches with emerging concepts to align their project initiatives with strategic goals. Chris Fry, salesforce.com vice president of Platform Development and Steve Greene, senior director of Tools and Agile Development, present the company s successful switch from a waterfall system to an agile-based system from the traditional, sequential system to an emergent, iterative and empirical system. The conversion is one of industry s largest and fastest agile transformations.


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