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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004. First came PRINCE in 1989 as the UK government standard for IT project management. And what are the weak points? Emphasis on people, teams, leadership and the so-called soft skills required to truly operate in a strategic leadership position has only increased since then.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., Techniques have been developed describing ways to recover all or part of the expected business value from a distressed project [Morais-Storz et al.,

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How to Go From Technical Expert to Leader

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He was given the opportunity to act as a team lead, a role he very much wanted and where he felt he could make a difference. When Andrew caught up with him again, not only had Domenic been successful in getting his voice heard, but he said he’d been promoted to team manager. I had team members where this worked well.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Project Governance - project management is a well-defined concept found in many guidebooks and Bodies of Knowledge.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. 920, November 2004. Risk Management Papers. “A 255, April 2010.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. 61, September 2004.