Preserving and Sharing Project Knowledge
This post presents ideas and recommendations for project knowledge management strategy in a team
May 3, 2010
2010
10 Lessons in Guerilla Tactics of Project Management
While many brilliant books and articles have been written on good project management, there is little attention paid to all the possibilities a project manager has to create the appearance of managing a project well...
May 3, 2010
Scrum-tastic Tuesday – Break it down
This blog post is about how to improve software project estimations by breaking tasks into sizes no larger than one productive day.
April 21, 2010
Using Stakeholder Analysis in Software Project Management
Stakeholder analysis is a technique to identify and analyze the stakeholders surrounding a project. A proper analysis of the stakeholders will help you to construct a project approach suited to the situation and will allow...
April 15, 2010
Managing Risk on Agile Projects with the Risk Burndown Chart
Risk management is a central part of traditional project management and is included as one of the knowledge areas in the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) body of knowledge. In many of my classes, participants ask...
April 8, 2010
The Economics of Iterative Software Development by Walker Royce, Kurt Bittner and Mike Perrow
The beginning of the book describes the development process, providing a two pages description of COCOMO in the middle of it, and proposes way to improve it. The solutions focus mainly on an initial emphasis...
April 7, 2010
Agile Project Management Adoption Obstacles
“I’ve personally witnessed several failed agile adoptions that could have been prevented. The first was in a company that had spent more than a million dollars on its transition effort. Executives brought in outside trainers...
April 3, 2010
How to Manage Programmers
In his blog post “How to Manage Programmers” Tuomas Pelkonen discuss how to deal with programmers in a software project. Everybody knows that programmers are probably the hardest people to manage, because the way they...
March 30, 2010
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