Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 13, 2016

Tomorrow the UK goes to the polls to vote on whether we should leave the European Union. If the country votes for Brexit, the implications for British business are huge. The implications for the country overall are massive too, but a lot has been written about that already and I’m not in a position to add anything to the debate. I’ll be voting in the morning.

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Moira Alexander

JUNE 13, 2016

In most companies, individual departments or teams believe they hold the key to understanding customer needs more than other areas of the business. But the reality is that different departments simply have a different view into customer expectations and none has an all-encompassing view. CRM teams and EPMO/PMOs are not immune to this misconception. When you look at the two roles, both ultimately focus on customer/stakeholder satisfaction and utilize similar or comparable mechanisms to accomplish

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 13, 2016

Most of us working in the technology world are constantly on the look-out for the best new tool—something meaningful and a bit magical that will increase our productivity, boost confidence and improve the quality of our working relationships and the final product. But how do you make the transition from the known way of working on projects (even if it sucks) to the new, better way?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 13, 2016

Here's some thoughts on the economics of software development using other people's money, after 3 weeks of working a proposal for a major software intensive system of systems using Agile. With the advent of Agile, the linear spend planning and delivery of capabilities was altered to iterative and incremental spend and delivery planning. Time boxed, drip funding, fixed budget are funding profiles that might be added to the economic model once they've been verified and validated in practice to pr

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