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The obvious response is that PMI is a cargo cult. I mean if we're straw-manning everything.


The more interesting question is: Why did Agile beat PMI?

Because project management is not a critical success factor.

Most projects are late, buggy, or outright failures.

One response was to improve project management. That worked okay. But like with most knowledge work, requires some effort.

Another response was to accept the failure rate and simply throw more resources at the problem.

aka Worse is better.


Worse is Better is something else altogether.




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