Five years ago I did not make a conscious separation between methodology and project management. It's not that I confused the two, but I didn't warn others against it. This is the time for that warning. The first section in this chapter argues for separating project management strategies from process or methodology policies. The second section addresses the tricky question: After these two are separated, and supposing the organization has a wide-ranging portfolio of projects to run, what can be said about methodologies across the organization? The third section contains my best, most current description of how to talk about incremental, iterative, and cyclical process. The fourth section addresses how to write down your team's methodology in just an afternoon or two. Methodologies: Evolution
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