Archive for the ‘project management’ Category

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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.

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 [...]

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Hi 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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Flock or Fleece?

Posted: 9th November 2009 by Peter DeYoe in IT Productivity, Service Management, management, project management, scrum

Hello All, On my blog roll there is a link to the Be Good Ventures: Joe and Wanda blog site.  I found a recent blog post on the site entitled Flock or Fleece.  I found the following entry on leaders to be a very appropriate description of any leader or manager, and certainly for a [...]

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Hello All, A colleague of mine has written a book called “Lead Well and Prosper”.  It is a common sense guide that provides 15 successful strategies on becoming a good manager.  It is written from the voices of Joe Kerr and Wanda B. Good.  They provide entertaining, humorous and yet important insights into becoming a [...]

Hello All, The article Is Scrum Too Simple has won the contest so far as having generated the most activity from you, the readers of this blog.   The article had over 50 comments ranging from “Yes…It is too simple”, to “No, it is actually quite complex and difficult to implement. ” Since I post [...]