Criteria for Selecting a Development Method – Agile, Waterfall, Agifall By Zenkara Why did you choose the method you’re using right now? We’ve all been in the scenario where the old way of developing...
Making an Impact as a Project Manager By Claudia Vandermilt Project management can be a valuable approach when attempting to control spending and improve project deliverables. The benefits can produce the collective effect of...
How to Help People Measure Results, Not Activity By Stacey Barr A reader, Kenneth, works in a hospital and has this measurement challenge: “Different people want to follow up on different things. The nurses,...
Common Project Manager Mistakes: #5 Assuming Estimates Can Be Right By Samuel T. Brown, III, PMP, Global Knowledge Course Director and Instructor This article is part of a series. The previous article can be...
So You Think Your Company Has High Organizational Project Management Maturity? By Kiron D. Bondale I’ve written a lot about the criticality of organizational project management maturity in increasing the likelihood of complex projects...
Why Lean Methodology Fails: All Planning and No Execution By Aaron Lalvani Most people know how to plan a dream vacation. All the sights they want to see, the places to go, the restaurants,...
Deliver Some Value Now, Deliver More Value Later By Brian Dear We have a hypothetical application that lets small hotel owners and managers accept reservations over the web. Visitors can visit the site and...
Project Failures, By the Numbers By Kerry Wills Every year, the Standish Group comes out with their “Chaos Report” which surveys projects and companies to determine project success and failures. The 2014 version came...
Planning for a Productive Retrospective – Key Challenges By Zenkara What are the key challenges to using Retrospectives/PIRs to improve? The challenges are legion are broadly fall under two main themes: Duck & cover...
Involve Your Customers By Lisa Sieverts First and foremost, this means listening to your customers. Early on in the project, your team must spend time with customers and end users. Make sure the project...
