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Tag Archives: project charter
What Should Done Mean, Coda
Last week at Agile 2010, Joshua Kerievsky and I facilitated an Open Jam session (open space) about what done means. We discussed a variety of points. I believe we eventually agreed that context matters. It’s important to know what your … Continue reading
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Tagged Manage It, project charter, project management, release criteria, success criteria
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A Project Needs a Vision
When I teach project management, I ask the participants to create a project charter (See my templates page for one I use to start). I recently encountered a battered project manager who does not have a project charter for … Continue reading
A Couple of Links
Just because I’ve been quiet doesn’t mean I haven’t been working. I’ve posted two project management templates, the project charter template and the project plan template at my Templates page. The AYE blog is up and running. I have … Continue reading
How Much Planning is Enough?
I gave a talk entitled “Predicting Project Completion” at the Central Mass chapter of the PMI last night. I had some suggestions about techniques to generate and discuss schedule estimates. Then, to practice a little, I asked the audience … Continue reading
Drawing Boundaries
Esther and I are editing (the next-to-final pass, we think) the book this week, integrating comments from our reviewers. We are very fortunate; our reviewers provided wonderful feedback. And some of the feedback we’re not going to use — … Continue reading
Schedule Game #10: We’ll Know Where We Are When We Get There
One of my clients claimed he had ADHD. He had trouble keeping projects focused on one goal. I’ve known him for a while, and he didn’t have this problem when he was a project manager. Nope, he made sure … Continue reading
Schedule Game #4: Hope is Our Most Important Strategy
A few years ago, a senior manager called me. “We have a project in trouble. We started off hopeful, but now it looks impossible.” I asked a few questions, and discovered they had never done a project like this … Continue reading
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Tagged iterative planning, project charter, project management, release criteria
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Defining the Value of This Project
My PM students are articulating insights about projects that I’m happy to see. One project team said this in their charter, “The value of the product is moving the paper successfully across the room. The value of the project … Continue reading
