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title: "Stop Using Projects to Make Products"
description: "A project is: “a set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations.” — BusinessDictionary.com, 2016."
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I am honored to present 3 unique sessions at Agile Tour Montréal 2019.

A project is: “a set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations.” — BusinessDictionary.com, 2016. The problem: Product development cannot be constrained to “certain cost” and products do not have a prescribed end date. *So, why all the projects?*

I teach Scrum, Kanban, and Agile Engineering Principles and Practices. In my classes:

- ~55% of the people in my classes are “Project Managers”
- ~90% work daily in “project teams” and
- ~0% are ready to let go of Project Charters!?

[Slides](https://scrumworks834-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/david_sabine_scrum_works/EbBjzFG5DzZDuq9J47L8BG4BjGnRyVo-BfxEPl3Sk7s6cg?e=Rac6a1)

*Agile Tour Montréal · Montréal · November 28, 2019*

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