Kiron Bondale

APRIL 15, 2018

The Manifesto for Agile Software Development gave us four values supported by a dozen guiding principles. While methodologies or practices can be domain specific, taken as a whole, the Manifesto’s values and principles can be applied to almost any industry or domain to deliver customer value in an efficient, people-focused manner. But there is one more value which might have helped to avoid some of the failures attributed to agile transformations – agility over agendas.

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Ganttic

APRIL 15, 2018

While other antiquated office practices – faxing, sending documents by post, filing paper and smoking in the office – have become pretty much extinct, somehow the use of Excel spreadsheets in the resource planning world is still going strong. Bizarrely, in the digital age, many managers are attempting to do the important job of allocating their teams, equipment, and facilities using Excel, along with a haphazard combination of emails, wall charts, whiteboards, and notebooks.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2018

It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers. — Fred Brooks, “The Mythical Man-month”. No matter what the #Noestimates advocates claim, Making decisions in the presence of uncertainty mandates estimates.

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Musings on Project Management

APRIL 15, 2018

Many creative people will tell you that new ideas begin -- often spontaneously -- with a mind's sketch that they then render in some kind of media. Fair enough -- no news there. We've talked about storyboards, etc before. But then the heavy lifting begins. How to fill in the details? Where to start? My advice: Draw it first. If you can't draw it, you can't build it!

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Zen Project Management

APRIL 15, 2018

I'm working on the book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics. As you might guess, the book is about how the brain works, based on years of research. He talks about the mind as two systems, the first being fast and intuitive and the second being more deliberate. One of the ideas he discussing is that of Priming.

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