PM Basics
AUGUST 24, 2018
Planning is science and art. Whatever you call it, it is a challenging and complex process. A plan should be feasible, challenging, realistic, usable, efficient and optimal. It is difficult. I get it! Below are the project planning concepts that will help you to deliver a plan that leads to project success. Believe it or not, small and medium projects rely on proper planning more than large ones.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 24, 2018
It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, and yet we engage in an unconscious fiction of predictability every day. We work in an uncertain world, and our main goal in pursuing agility is to confront the unknown, and in doing so, to master it. Pursuing predictability causes us to lay a veneer of fiction over the real world, making it conform to a plan of what we would like to believe is true rather than what really is. .
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Musings on Project Management
AUGUST 24, 2018
Now we're getting somewhere! No less an Agile/Scrum eminence than Mike Cohn -- author of some really good books and articles -- has come out with a newsletter on -- are you ready for this? -- what's the meaning of DONE in Agile. His acronym, a bit a poor choice to my mind, is "DoD". definition of done. But, there you have it. perhaps a new GAAP "generally accepted agile practice" for.
Herding Cats
AUGUST 24, 2018
While speaking at the PGCS in Canberra Austrailia, I met Robert Bolton. His book The Executive Guide to Breakthrough Project Management is a fascinating read about managing Capital projects using Critical Chain. CCPM is mentioned many times in our agile software project world but rarely is it actually explained how to put those concepts to work. Goldrat is usually mentioned, but since CC stated on the shop floor, transferring those processes to software development have no current references. .
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Resource Guru
AUGUST 24, 2018
It takes skill to make something elegant seem effortless. We start off this week’s product update with an announcement: we’ve finished development of drag’n’drop and resizing in the new Schedule Beta, due to be rolled out to everyone shortly. Our initial implementation of moving bookings in the old Schedule application tried to satisfy a couple of requirements, like preserving the amount of booked durations while skipping unavailable days.
TimeCamp
AUGUST 24, 2018
Why Should You Use Chat? Communication and collaboration – we all know that it’s crucial.
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