Project Management
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Software Development
20 (Or So) Things Managers Should Stop Saying To Engineers
This post is a direct reply to an article I recently read with title : “20 things engineers should stop…
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Agile
Cost, Value & Investment: How Much Will This Project Cost? Part 2
This post is continued from Cost, Value & Investment: How Much Will This Project Cost, Part 1 We’ve established that…
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Agile
The Measure Of Success
What makes a successful project? Waterfall project management tells us it’s about meeting scope, time and cost goals. Do these…
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Agile
Cost, Value & Investment: How Much Will This Project Cost? Part 1
I’ve said before that you cannot use capacity planning for the project portfolio. I also said that managers often want…
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Agile
Managers Manage Ambiguity
I was thinking about the Glen Alleman’s post, All Things Project Are Probabilistic. In it, he says, Management is Prediction…
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Agile
Failed! You get what you deserve!
Consider this, few projects fail because of unusual or unforeseen problems. If you are trying to go so fast that…
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Software Development
Inconvenient truths of project Status reporting
Long time readers of this blog may recall that I subscribe to the high-brow MIT Sloan Management Review. They may…
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Agile
Estimation and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
I’m not a fan of using schedule or cost estimate as a way to value the projects in your project…
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Agile
Managing Success in Devil’s Triangle of Software; Projects, Project Managers and Developers
I am not a project manager of any kind and never interested to be one. I am not a huge…
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