Estimating the Unknown
“Almost every manager I know wants to know when a project will be done” says Johanna Rothman at the beginning of this series of blog posts that deal with project schedule and budget estimation. The...
November 16, 2011
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Root Cause Analysis for Software Project Managers
Risk management and reduction is an important activity for the project manager. Accidents will always happen and corrective action is then needed to deal with issues encountered during projects. Unfortunately, actions taken to resolve a...
November 11, 2011
Self-Inflicted Scope Creep
Self-inflicted scope creep happens when a team increases the scope of their project without their customers actually asking for anything new. It’s painful to watch because it can mess up your plan, create fear and...
November 9, 2011
What’s Wrong With Agile Methods
Current agile methods could benefit from using a more quantified approach across the entire implementation process :t development, production and delivery. The main benefits of adopting such an approach include improved communication of the requirements...
October 27, 2011
Effective Teamwork
This video discusses issues and solutions for team collaboration in an interdisciplinary context.
October 25, 2011
Lean Principles and IT Demand Management
This article explains how, given the current global economic climate, many IT organizations’ frozen budgets and cost-cutting drive down value-adding and innovative IT initiatives. It describes how Lean principles can help to institutionalize IT Demand...
October 24, 2011
Transforming to Agile PMO
This video shares some key ‘waste’ areas within organizations and some ideas for how the PMO can focus their efforts on addressing these areas with special attention on limiting the number of projects in execution...
October 11, 2011
Metrics for Better Software Teams
The article “Moneyball for software engineering” explains how metrics-driven decisions can build better software teams. The basic idea is that organizations can use statistical data to build more competitive teams. Most of us work in...
October 11, 2011
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