Simple Guide to Quickly Sizing/Costing a Project Up Front By Neil Killick Identify high level requirements (epics and stories) and size them XS, S, M, L or XL (T-shirt sizes) so that each story...
The Three Roles of a Leader By Mark Calabrese As leaders (in IT and otherwise), our job consists of three roles: Identify new opportunities for the organization, team or group to add business value....
Project Management Foundations – Managing the Creep By Steve Hart I have discussed on several occasions that “scope creep” is not a term that I am particularly fond of. The PMBOK® refers to project...
Tailoring the Project Management Process By Bruno Collet This article proposes a simple approach to tailor the project management methodology to business projects based on their specific needs. Although projects vary with regard to...
No One Wants to Buy Your Iterations By Chris Nicola One of the most common agile tools in the toolbox is the good old iteration. Call them what you want, sprints, cycles, releases, but...
Why Not Velocity as an Agile Metric? By Esther Derby In response to my recent article on Agile Metrics, a reader asked, “Why did you leave out velocity?” Even though it’s not perfect, velocity...
How to Build Stakeholder Analysis By Terrence Metz Stakeholders are identified by examining the way that they interact with the organization in providing or receiving services or benefits. Stakeholders may include external or internal...
An Integral Approach to Project Management By Brad McManus and Ron Cacioppe Projects are an important management approach to improving organizational effectiveness. This paper describes how project management can contribute to achievement of an...
5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today By Joel Semeniuk “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small...
Effective Methods of Risk Identification By Carl M. Manello “There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” –President...
