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Reduce Friction
On the bike at the gym this morning, I thought about increasing my level. When I exercise, more friction is good. But when you develop or use products, more friction is bad. Brian Marick talks about this when he speaks … Continue reading
Posted in program management
Tagged friction, project, project management, project team, technical debt
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Context Matters: Premature Optimization or Habits From Long Ago?
I’m at the Much Ado About Agile conference this week, in beautiful Vancouver. During lunch one day, one of the conference participants started talking about premature optimization of code. Well, I know a few things about that. When I started … Continue reading
Kill, Commit, or Transform Your Projects
Daniel wrote a lovely post, Kill, commit, or transform your projects over on praglife. Keeping projects around that are not staffed, multitasking on several projects (committing to none of them), and running away from reality doesn’t help anyone. The projects … Continue reading
When Did “fill in the blank” Start?
On mailing lists, when I speak, in email, people ask, “When did ‘some principle, approach, or whatever’ start?” A long time ago. Timeboxes have been around forever. I’m pretty sure that when the Pharoahs told their architects to build a … Continue reading
Projects, Products, and Finishing
Chris asked in his comment, how about using the word ‘abandoned’ for projects that are “finished”? I just don’t think of completed projects as abandoned. Let’s separate the product from the project. Projects complete. Products may never be done, but … Continue reading
Posted in portfolio management
Tagged agile, program management, project, project management
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How Long-Term is Your Strategy?
I was thinking about the automakers, and how they want many billions of $ from Washington (please, noooo). I don’t know what their strategic planning is, but it seems not to have changed from the 1960′s. Certainly, when I started … Continue reading
Abandoning vs. Killing Projects
John Cook, wrote a lovely post, Peter Drucker and abandoning projects, explaining how Drucker talks about abandoning projects. (John, thanks, I will definitely be referencing Drucker in the PPM book.) I haven’t been using the word “abandon” when I describe … Continue reading
Posted in portfolio management
Tagged project, project management, project success, redesign
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A Little More About Program Management
Glen Alleman has a post about program management, Managing Multiple Projects is Called Program Management which got me thinking. (I’ve written about program management in the past also: Program Management: Multiple Projects With Multiple Deliverables.) But in the portfolio management … Continue reading
Posted in program management
Tagged program, project, project management, project portfolio management
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Breaking Free of Legacy Projects
If you’ve never been a victim of Medieval software project management, wow, I’m impressed. You don’t have to read the rest of this post. But if you’ve ever tried to break free of a legacy product/project, and haven’t been able … Continue reading
Posted in project management
Tagged management, project, project portfolio management, project team, team
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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
Want to save time on your next project? Improve working relationships? Understand what contributed to your success–or what didn’t? You’ll need a retrospective to do these things, and if you want a great retrospective, you’ll buy a copy of … Continue reading
