Deciding What Kind of Projects are Most Suited for Agile
In this blog post, Mike Cohn explains that agile is most appropriate on any urgent project with significant complexity and novelty – and that includes software development and weddings.
Author: Project Management Planet
Don’t Start a Project with Scarcity
Johanna Rothman discusses what you should do when you don’t have enough resources at the beginning of a project. You will have to learn to defensively manage the project portfolio–a difficult, but not impossible task for a project manager.
The Purpose of a Plan
In this blog post, Jens Schauder offers a list of things a plan can do for you or other people involved in the project plus some properties your plan should have in order to fulfill this purpose.
Team Diversity
“The tendency to resort to groupthink can be exacerbated by a team’s tendency to self-select likeminded people and get rid itself of people who don’t think like the rest of the team. It’s important to find a workable balance between strong individual talents and team-centric collaboration, and to ensure that...
Being Dumb and Getting Things Done
This post provides an interesting perspective on the skills of people that would like to have in your project teams.
The Iron Triangle of Valuation
This blog post takes the classical project management triangle (deadline, price, quality) equation to the people side of project management.
Definition of Project Management
One way to simply and intuitively define project management is that it is a set of tools, templates, and processes designed to answer the following six questions:
Manager 2.0: The Role of the Manager in Scrum
When an organization starts to explore Scrum, there’s often an uncomfortable moment early on when someone points out that the role of “manager” seems to be missing entirely. “Well I guess we’ll have to just get rid of ‘em all!” wisecracks one of the developers, and all the managers in...