Green Project Management

JULY 5, 2016

Last week I was asked to deliver a keynote presentation on sustainable project management to an audience of project managers in Australia at an Australian Institute of Project Management event. I started the presentation with a discussion about the future: our individual future, the future of our children, as well as the future of the project […].

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Sustainability 334

Herding Cats

JULY 5, 2016

The misuse of Hofstadter's Law is common in many agile development domains. The quote is. It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. This quote is misused to suggest that estimating can't be done. On page 152 of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid , Hofstadter explains the context and meaning of Hofstadter's Law.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 5, 2016

Dear Elizabeth: I work on a project team for a manufacturing company. For the last year we’ve been using ranged estimates to build out our schedules. For the most part our customers love it. We have one customer who is putting up a fight, saying they want a hard deadline. How do we convince them to go with a two-point estimate? – Living in Reality.

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