The Lazy Project Manager

OCTOBER 11, 2016

What: A Social event exploring everything you need to know to collaborate effectively as a project team. When: Thursday December 1 2016 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Where: The Yacht London is a permanently moored 1927 luxury steam yacht with a fabulous history, situated on the North Bank of the Thames, between Embankment and Temple, in what is known as “The Mayfair of the River”, just a short distance from the Houses of Parliament it boasts magnificent views of the Thames and Southbank.

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2016 Process PMI 265

Zen Project Management

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Agile is about delivering value, so it is important to understand the value you are delivering within an iteration or release. However, I seen many teams that focus on how many story points they deliver but not really thinking about the value of those story points. So are there ways to measure value? The answer is, of course there is. One way would be to use the Planning Poker approach, but instead of estimating the effort for each story you can estimate the value of the story.

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Estimate Agile Planning 146

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 11, 2016

There is a current rash of suggestions on how to improve the performance of software projects. Each of these, while well meaning, are missing the means to confirm their credibility. They are many times end up being personal anecdotes from observations and local practices that may or may not be applicable outside those anecdotes and more importantly may not be statistically sound in principle, let alone practice.

Performance Measurement 57

Performance Measurement Aerospace 2006 Estimate 57

Celoxis

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Project team members are both responsible and accountable for their tasks. Despite the similarities, both terms aren’t identical. A good project manager must be able to distinguish “accountability” from “responsibility” to ensure project success. And the key is being clear and transparent and performing on-going reporting.

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PMO Software Leadership 56

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Wrike

OCTOBER 11, 2016

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Initiating Consulting Innovation Leadership 36

Musings on Project Management

OCTOBER 11, 2016

18th century political theorist James Madison was one of the authors of the Federalist Papers, a group of essays about republican (small "r") government on a nation-scale, written and intended to sway public opinion toward ratification of the U.S. constitution. He is the author of Federalist 51, one of the most famous and cited of the 85 essays.

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