Early in 2007, PMI’s IT&T SIG and the Scrum Alliance began forging a cooperative relationship with two primary goals: 1) Build a bridge between their two organizations that would allow their respective members to have greater access to the tools offered by the other 2) Reduce the hostility that often arises between the PMI and Agile camps by those who are not entirely informed of the benefits of each approach or how they can be used together.