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Tag Archives: context
PMs Need Trend Data to Guide the Project
I’ve encountered a number of projects where people didn’t know the context of their work. As developers, they were working on the thing they had to develop or fix today. They might remember what they had done yesterday, but … Continue reading
Audits and Assessments
There’s a fascinating email thread started by David Anderson about What would Agile Auditing Look Like?. Part of the discussion stems from what the definition of an audit is. Audits are about compliance to a defined process. Do we need … Continue reading
Convincing Management That Context Switching Is a Bad Idea
A few weeks ago, I republished an article originally published in Better Software: Convincing Management That Context Switching Is a Bad Idea on the AYE site. I’d received no feedback about the article when it was published, so I … Continue reading
Management Myth #6: I Have to be the Technical Star
Technical people and their managers get caught in this myth all the time. And there’s a good reason for it. For the first few years of a technical person’s career — in fact until the person moves into management … Continue reading
Describing Requirements
In my last post, I argued that functional and non-functional requirements are unsuitable for the art of describing requirements. I prefer to discuss attributes of the system instead, and then talk about functionality. (Gause and Weinberg wrote Exploring Requirements, … Continue reading
Managing Multi-Tasking
After my presentation last night at the Detroit PMI chapter, an attendee asked me, “Is context switching really as bad as you say it is?” Yes, it is. I believe Weinberg’s estimate of losing 10-20% of possible work-time every … Continue reading
