Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 27, 2017

Scott Adams continues to hit the mark when it comes to the dysfunctions plaguing the corporate world. His latest Dilbert comic strip inspired me to write about a common challenge facing those organizations who are moving from a project-centric to a product-centric delivery approach, namely developing effective product owners. The funny thing is that this is not a new role – go back a couple of decades and it was common to have senior managers responsible for making the majority of decision

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. It has recently gained acceptance by a wide number of professions, industries, and organizations. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail. The Italics are from the post and regular texts are my comments.

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EarthPM

AUGUST 27, 2017

Just a short note today…I suppose you could call it an ‘opinion piece’ I just read this terrific article from Harvard Business Review regarding the neuroscience of trust – the sort of ‘ chemical ‘ aspects of what we as project managers know as the Tuckman Model (Form, Storm, Norm, Perform, Adjourn). I think if we read the article with our PM “hats” on and realize that, as a PM, we are the “mini-CEO” of a temporary organization, we can g

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TimeCamp

AUGUST 27, 2017

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