Archive for the ‘project management’ Category

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 [...]

Hi 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 [...]

There 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 [...]

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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 [...]