Managers Manage Ambiguity
I was thinking about the Glen Alleman’s post, All Things Project Are Probabilistic. In it, he says, Management is Prediction as a inference from Deming. When I read this quote, If you can’t describe...
View ArticleCost, 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 to know how much the project will cost. Why? Because businesses have to manage...
View ArticleThe Measure Of Success
What makes a successful project? Waterfall project management tells us it’s about meeting scope, time and cost goals. Do these success metrics also hold true to agile projects? Let’s see. In an agile...
View ArticleCost, 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 you need to know how much this project will cost. I’m assuming you have more...
View Article20 (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 saying‘.I was so frustrated and irritated when I finished reading this article that I couldn’t...
View ArticleProject Lifecycle in Teamed.io
In addition to being a hands-on programmer, I’m also co-founder and CTO of Teamed.io, a custom software development company. I play the role of a technical and management leader in all projects we work...
View ArticleLarge Program? Release More Often
I’m working on the release planning chapter for Agile and Lean Program Management: Collaborating Across the Organization. There are many ways to plan releases. But the key? Release often. How often? I...
View ArticleIs Your Culture Working the Way You Think it Is?
Long ago, I was a project manager and senior engineer for a company undergoing a Change Transformation. You know the kind, where the culture changes, along with the process. The senior managers had...
View ArticleWhen Should You Move from Iterations to Flow?
I’m writing part of the program management book, talking about how you need to keep everything small to maintain momentum. Sometimes, to keep your work small, teams move from iterations to flow. Here...
View ArticleLearn why this intuitive Tool is the Universal Team Management Tool for your...
Every project management tool seeks to do the same instrumental thing: keep teams connected, on task and on deadline to get major initiatives done. But the market is getting pretty crowded, and for...
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