Overall, users love this – typically, they are used to extremely lengthy product release cycles from “Big IT” software vendors. Now, they look forward to new releases and the quicker, less disruptive evolution of the product.

Iterative project management seems so intuitive, it makes me wonder how many project managers have taken techniques like agile or scrum and applied them to non-software development projects. As a project manager, having incremental, small milestones that deliver a portion of the project’s value every few weeks seems to have several advantages – it would make projects easier to manage and monitor, and clients get to see the results of their investment quickly, and provide regular feedback into the iterative process.

Is anyone out there using these techniques for generalized project management? Has it been used this way in the past? It seems a bit counter to the highly planned and orchestrated PMBOK way of doing things.