The Measure of a Management System
Jim Highsmith, author of Agile Project Management, describes how performance management systems can affect an organization’s adoption of Agile techniques. One line in this article, “Our traditional project management and budgeting performance management systems were designed to measure conformance to plan (or budget), not adaptability. These systems need to change—not just at the project management level but throughout the organization” gives just a taste about what is contained.