collaboration… Mixed Expectations 2 May 20182 May 2018 When a team has temporarily assigned specialists, it is important to ensure that everyone has the same set of expectations. #APG (Agile Practice Guide) Clarifying Expectations is not just a…
project management Looking Back To Gain Perspective 5 Jan 20165 Jan 2016 “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away…
Agile… A Rose By Any Other Name: Project Manager, Scrum Master? Flow Manager? 21 Jun 201521 Jun 2015 I love Pastries. So it stands to reason that I really like Bakeries. Several years ago, I used to frequent a German bakery that sold authentic German pastries. I had to…
books… Experimenting with Personal Kanban 23 Feb 2015 After reading Personal Kanban, I wanted to try running with some of the authors' ideas in the real world. And why not? All I needed was a Kanban board and a…
Business Acumen… Are We Building Widgets or Reducing Costs? Using Benefits to Drive our Project Focus 8 Feb 20158 Feb 2015 As Project Managers we communicate daily to Customers, Salespeople and Senior Management. We could be using the PMI-approved words and concepts, but our focus may be frustrating our audience. To effectively…
Agile… Book Review: Personal Kanban 25 Jan 2015 "Like Traffic, work does not fit. Work flows." - Personal Kanban Do you ever look up at the end of the day and wonder 1) Where the day went? 2)…
Agile… Course Corrections: PM Acceptance of Change 18 Jan 201518 Jan 2015 "Course corrections are not project management failures, nor do they suggest a loss of control - quite the opposite in fact. Rigid plans with fixed definitions of success limit our…
Business Value… Self-Improvement: Looking for your Blind Spots 10 Jan 2015 Have you finished your goal-setting for 2015? How did you do it? Apart from external feedback, it can be hard to assess where you need to focus because of your…
books… True communication is the response you get 7 Dec 2014 "True communication is the response you get. This phrase might need some explanation in order to make complete sense. It is based on the idea that no communication attempt initiated…
books… Plan Some of Your Work, Work that Plan 22 Nov 201422 Nov 2014 The adaptive, flexible approach....views projects as dynamic, unstable, and hard-to-predict processes. It assumes that changes will take place during project execution - changes in the environment, the business, the markets,…
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