Recently, by reading many blogs and articles I came to the understanding that a lot of people are putting _traditional project management_ equal to _PMBOK_, and _all these things together_ against _agile_ management. I do not think it's right. Traditional "big" project management is a myth. In my understanding, it's just the way you are doing any project handling. PMBOK in it's turn is not forcing you to do that. It gives you necessary evil - important steps which _no matter which management technique you will use_ - you will need to accomplish this or that way.
See - you always do Integration and Scope management - just shorter way - like gathering requirements and making up some small description of the things you need. You are saying you are fast and agile; yes you are. But this is generally part of Integration and Scope management!
Next goes Time, Cost, Risk and Quality management. Don't fool yourself - of course you are doing them. For every milestone. For every release. You are not building "the world", but going tiny steps, and you call it agile; yes and it's right. But still you are following steps from PMBOK. ;-)
And last but not least HR, Communications and Procurement management. Very often in agile you and your team are working together. Very-very close. And you all are working with software vendors, or may be open source software. Don't you see that to be exactly these areas? Don't close your eyes, this is exactly them!
I know that people always were looking for some "old" and "legacy" thing to rip off and present "new" and "promising" one. But, if I accept that as to many (if not all) projects nowadays need to go agile (you just simply will not be able to be enough competitive with everybody else if your planning step will be the same like limited-features beta-release of the same product but by other competitor's company!) I totally cannot accept using words of "rip PMBOK"/etc. For me it was a reference. Pretty usefull, really. Not working 100% for software development. But it is an important knowledge, to my mind.
What do YOU think?