You’ve got your process. Ironed out. Ironclad. Agile, scrum, Kanban, waterfall…it’s working. But then you get this new project, or new team members or new stakeholders, and suddenly your project management approach starts to break down. What is happening?

Anita Sagar, Agile Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, has a simple explanation: not all situations or challenges are created equal. So no single process will fit all contexts. As Anita says, the context of a federal organization, a commercial one, a tech giant, startup or nonprofit—it’s all different. One organization may need Agile, whereas the solution for another may be scrum or Kanban. Or…dare we say it, waterfall. That’s right, Waterfall with a capital W.

So how does a DPM or organization truly understand context and visualize different solutions before diving into the wrong approach? Anita joins us to talk about the Cynefin framework, and how to use it to place yourself in the right scenario and right project management approach to achieve optimal results.