Projects…Start with What & Why
What are we doing? And why are we doing it? These are the first two critical questions that must be asked at the start of […]
Category: Agile
Blogs on Agile and Agile project management
Agile Project Planning
Agile planning should be simple. Agile embraces flexibility, adaptability, and incremental delivery. Therefore, planning processes are designed to be lightweight and time-efficient. Many organizations struggle […]
Reports of Agile’s Death are Exaggerated
Amid swirling rumors that Mark Twain was gravely ill, a journalist wrote to inquire about his health. The ever-witty Twain responded, “Reports of my death […]
The Economics of Project Management Certification
I earned a master’s degree in economics and worked in the field for a few years before shifting to project management. Despite the shift, I […]
Earned Work: Measuring Project Performance
Earned Work Management is a lightweight, approach-agnostic project performance measurement system that supports Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban. This allows organizations employing different project approaches to […]
Intentional Project Management
Meteorologists are better at predicting the weather than project managers are at delivering projects. About a third of projects are delivered on time, on budget, […]
Hybrid Project Management: Part 4, Picking the Practices
Hybrid projects are not constrained by a single methodology or well-defined framework. By definition, they are a melding melding of practices. A huge responsibility accompanies […]
Hybrid Project Management: Part 3, Picking the Approach
A project manager’s first major decision is selecting the approach and lifecycle. Historically, this was a non-issue. The default option was preordained based on the […]
Project Management: 10-Year Retrospective
I authored my first project management article 10 years ago. A mentor recommended I start writing to launch my transition from managing project organizations to […]
Hybrid Project Management: Part 2, What Changes?
We should view project management approaches as a palette of options. Predictive, Agile, and Lean/Kanban form the boundaries. Hybrid is the vast interior space. The […]