Hello All and Happy Friday, It’s been a week of reflecting on Risk Management. Earlier in the week I posted an article summarizing some Expert Thoughts on Risk Management in Agile Projects and yesterday posted a youtube video discussing Proactive Risk Management. So today I received a tweet from @SusanneMadsen with a link to a [...]
Archive for the ‘project management’ Category
Article: Proactive Risk Management
Posted: 18th May 2012 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Risk Management, Software Development, project managementProgressive Risk Management in Agile projects
Posted: 17th May 2012 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Application Development, Business Partnerships, Risk Management, management, project management, scrumHi Everyone, I wrote an article yesterday that deals with Risk Management on an Agile software development project. I found this youtube video that I thought was interesting and highly relevant. In the video, the author explores Risk Management in an Agile project. It explains how to take advantage of Agile project characteristics, such as [...]
Expert Thoughts on Agile Risk Management and the Need for More Comprehensive Risk Management Programs
Posted: 16th May 2012 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Application Development, Risk Management, Software Development, management, project management, scrumThere have been several articles written related to risk management. Three such articles have come from some of the leaders in Agile methods, and support to some degree, our views on applying risk management processes to the Agile world. Mike Cohn, from Mountain Goat Software wrote a blog article referencing a risk burn-down chart as [...]
PMI is in the Agile Certification Game
Posted: 23rd March 2011 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, PMBOK v4, Project Management Institute (PMI), project managementTags: Agile Adoption, PMBOK v4, project management, Project Management Institute (PMI)
On February 24, 2011, the Project Management Institute (PMI) unveiled their new Agile certification. The number of Agile sessions at PMI events has been growing over the last six years.
Denounce Your CSM?!
Posted: 6th March 2011 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Leadership, Software Development, management, project management, scrumTags: Agile, Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Leadership, management, project management, scrum, Software Development
Hi All, Seems like there is a movement afoot to diminish the significance of having a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) title. I ran across an article on www.AgileScout.com – Denounce your CSM - that is quite critical of the entire Agile Alliance and the Scrum Master Certification program. Apparently there is a new kid on the [...]
Race to the South Pole and Lean Project Management
Posted: 11th February 2011 by Peter DeYoe in IT Learning, IT Metrics, IT Productivity, Leadership, Risk Management, Software Development, management, project managementHi All, ITMPI has released 2 new webinars that I thought you might find of value. They are available for FREE until February 20th. Pete —————————————– Webinar # 1: Lean Project Management Speaker: Nick Spanos Abstract: This webinar with Nick Spanos discusses how we can apply Lean concepts to project management to reduce costs while [...]
Automated Project Office
Posted: 15th January 2011 by Peter DeYoe in IT Metrics, IT Productivity, Risk Management, management, project managementTags: it risk management, project management, software risk management
Hello All, I wanted to share this YouTube video with you. It is for CAI’s Automated Project Office. The video was just released. The full site is www.automatedprojectoffice.com . Let me know what you think. Pete
Building Partnerships: An Evolving Leadership Imperative
Posted: 6th August 2010 by Peter DeYoe in IT Learning, Internet Economy, Leadership, Software Development, management, project managementTags: business model, IT Learning, itmpi, Leadership, management, Partnership, project management, Software Development
Hello All, I had the opportunity recently to present to a group of current and future leaders in my home state of Delaware. The topic of the discussion was Building Partnerships: An Evolving Leadership Imperative and was given to the Leadership Delaware organization class of 2010. I thought I would share the discussion with my [...]
"Nothing ever changes unless there’s some pain.”
Posted: 25th January 2010 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Software Development, management, project management, scrumTags: Agile, Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, project management, scrum, Software Development
Hello All, I am happy to have a guest blogger this week, Mr. James Adams. He has been gracious enough to provide a contribution to this body of work. James Adams is a Senior technology professional with a wide variety of experience implementing lean intranet and internet applications. James has experience with team management, coaching [...]
What if Your Software Development Vendor Wrote Your Custom Software Application for FREE?
Posted: 8th December 2009 by Peter DeYoe in Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, IT Productivity, Risk Management, Software Development, management, project management, scrumTags: Agile, Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, business model, it risk management, project management, scrum, Software Development
Hello All, Writing custom software is tricky business, especially in a typical customer/software development vendor scenario. Whether using a more traditional waterfall model or some of the newest Agile techniques (e.g., Scrum) the process is fraught with risk for both the software vendor and the customer. The customer is usually frustrated by the process due [...]


