Author: Project Management Planet

The Iron Triangle of Valuation

This blog post takes the classical project management triangle (deadline, price, quality) equation to the people side of project management.

Definition of Project Management

One way to simply and intuitively define project management is that it is a set of tools, templates, and processes designed to answer the following six questions:

Manager 2.0: The Role of the Manager in Scrum

When an organization starts to explore Scrum, there’s often an uncomfortable moment early on when someone points out that the role of “manager” seems to be missing entirely. “Well I guess we’ll have to just get rid of ‘em all!” wisecracks one of the developers, and all the managers in...

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The Top-Five Most Valuable Development Team Positions

This article contains a list of resources about the most valuable positions in a software development team. The original content mentioned had disappeared, so you will find below another list of resources about the how to form the best software development teams and what are the roles involved.

Why best practices are hard to practice (and what can be done about it)

The two common pitfalls that organizations encounter when implementing best practices are: 1. Lack of adaptation: this refers to a situation in which best practices are applied without customizing them to an organization’s specific needs. 2. Lack or adoption: this to the tendency of best practice initiatives to fizzle out...

Change Happens Slowly

“Behavior change happens, but it happens slowly. It may take several tries from different angles before a team changes their stand-up behavior. Be patient. Keep trying. They will change when they need to, but only if you don’t shield them from natural consequences that follow from poor stand-ups.” Reference: “Coaching...