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...
The Core Protocols are our ‘best practices’ for people, teams of people and organizations that want to get great results – all the time.
“Behavior change happens, but it happens slowly. It may take several tries from different angles before a team changes their stand-up behavior. Be patient. Keep trying. They will change when they need to, but only...
Most people try to avoid failure at any cost. However, the real question is how do we define project failure? In most cases, you will hear people talk about the project going over budget, the...
Glen Alleman writes about 11 criteria should be found on any project trying to be successful and that you should find in any project attempting to use Earned Value Management.
This article “Decomposition of Projects: How to Design Small Incremental Steps” by Tom Gilb gives some guidelines, policies and principles for decomposition of projects for incremental development. It also gives a short example from practical...
Planning theater is when we spend time pretending to plan
We’ve been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is either through fear of punishment or through external rewards such as money and fame.
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