Avoid Gold-plating Through Agile Delivery
Avoid Gold-plating Through Agile Delivery By Kiron D. Bondale As it is with jewelry, on projects gold-plating is all form with no substance. The increase in costs is rarely justified by the value provided...
Avoid Gold-plating Through Agile Delivery By Kiron D. Bondale As it is with jewelry, on projects gold-plating is all form with no substance. The increase in costs is rarely justified by the value provided...
Reinforcement for Running Retrospectives By Kiron D. Bondale Retrospectives are a common, regularly practiced ceremony on projects managed using an agile delivery method. But why stop there? There’s no reason that retrospectives couldn’t be...
Progressive Elaboration Is the Only Sane Approach to Planning! By Kiron D. Bondale Imagine that you are planning a multi-day road trip across the country to a town which you’ve never visited before. Chances...
Three Things You Should Do Whenever Someone Leaves Your Project By Kiron D. Bondale We start our projects with a small core team but as we proceed further down the rabbit hole we add...
Does Anyone Benefit from Your Project Management Information System (PMIS)? By Kiron D. Bondale A project management information system (PMIS) is not an investment which most companies would make lightly. The one time and...
What Challenges Will Project Managers Face a Decade from Now? By Kiron D. Bondale The hurdles which today’s project managers face are likely to be replaced by new threats over time. For example, when...
What Superpower Do You Wish You Have as a Project Manager? By Kiron D. Bondale Project managers are often asked to perform miracles, so they can be forgiven for occasionally wishing for magical powers...
Don’t Be a Project Management Lemming! By Kiron D. Bondale Given the progressive decline in oil prices over the past year, economic slowdowns in Asia impacting other global markets, and poor performance to date...
Can You Prove that Your PMO Has Improved Project Delivery? By Kiron D. Bondale Some project management offices (PMO) are like Rodney Dangerfield – they don’t get no respect. While there are many causes...
Portfolio Metrics Need to Advance Beyond on Time and on Budget By Kiron D. Bondale While simply meeting the triple constraint is not the best method of evaluating project success, on time or on...