It’s budget season. The economy is in the tank. You know budget cuts are are on their way. How do you make sure your team and projects survive? Prove that agile increases value. That’s exactly the message Richard Leavitt and Michael Mah presented this morning. But, to get your executives to keep your team and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Project Management'
ADP ‘08: Using Agile to Increase Value in Tough Times
November 12th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Conference Reports, Project Management
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If it hurts, you’re probably doing it right
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Project Management
We all learn how to ride a bike the same way: we learn to pedal, keep our balance, and steer. And that’s it. We learn how to ride when we’re 5 years old and we’re off and riding for the rest of our lives with minimal instruction. I used this limited knowledge [...]
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Project reporting
April 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Project Management
Many organizations require a fair bit of weekly or monthly project status reports in order to provide invoices to clients and executive level visibility into project status. Recently, I’ve been working through the issue of project reporting on our agile projects at the request of our COO. He has implemented a policy requesting weekly project [...]
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The Cooper Syndrome
March 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Conference Reports, Corporate Culture (or not), Project Management
Yesterday’s keynote speaker at the ESRI Developers Summit was Alan Cooper. Cooper is the author of The Inmates are Running the Asylum and About Face. His talk was entitled Post Industrial Management. Mainly, he discussed how to get non-technical people to have success and achieve their goals with software products. He did make some [...]
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