Sun.Dec 03, 2017

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How comical is your project?

Kiron Bondale

Frequent readers of my blog will know how much I respect Scott Adams’s unique insights into the dysfunctions of corporate life. Let’s analyze the case study provided in today’s comic strip! Risk (mis)management. The pointy-haired boss who serves as a constant reminder of the validity of the Peter Principle expresses surprise about the bumpiness of their white-water team-building project.

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Decision triangle and metacognition

Musings on Project Management

Project management, risk management, and other related disciplines are replete with triangles. Here's one more for the collection, taken from an article on "metacognition" by Marvin Cohen and Jared Freeman. As you can readily see, it's all about decision making under stress [indeed, that's the paraphrase title of their paper] when information potential [in the form of choices and perhaps.

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board and list view

Binfire

Do you like to use boards to create new tasks and view the status of all your task? Do you like the simplicity which list view provides for managing tasks and adding subtasks? Do you want to be able to switch between the board and list view at will? Unfortunately, most project management application s like Asana or Trello only give you the option to have the board view or list view, not both!

Agile 101
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Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Cone of Uncertainty describes the evolution of the amount of uncertainty during a project. The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Break Your Team's "But We Talked about It" Habit

ActiveCollab

No matter how efficient your team communication is, it won’t bring much value to the business unless there’s a written record of it. Help your team build a habit of using one centralised place to document what is said and done on regular basis. It has been almost a year and a half since I joined this company and besides skills and knowledge I gained there’s one thing I’ve also learned - you can’t have a happy and productive working environment without effective communication.