Are Waterfall and Agile Project Management Mutually Exclusive?

This shares a case study of an organization that needed to re-establish itself as a leader in a transformed financial market. This required the early delivery of business benefit from its new channel website, but when the project was planned using the organization’s standard waterfall approach, it showed the requirements gathering phase would still be under way when the first ‘go live’ date was required by the business. The article presents how agile was introduced in an organisation that had a standard waterfall approach and governance structure derived from PRINCE2.