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.
Project Management for Software Development
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...
The Core Protocols, an Experience Report – Part 2
The Core Protocols are our ‘best practices’ for people, teams of people and organizations that want to get great results – all the time.
Why best practices are hard to practice (and what can be done about it)
The two common pitfalls that organizations encounter when implementing best practices are: 1. Lack of adaptation: this refers to a situation in which best practices are applied without customizing them to an organization’s specific needs. 2. Lack or adoption: this to the tendency of best practice initiatives to fizzle out...
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