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Tag Archives: project team
It’s Too Hard to Bring New People Into the Organization
A number of my clients and colleagues are struggling with the problem of bringing people into their organizations. In Hiring the Best …, I recommend the buddy system for bring people on. I wrote a little article, How2 Create … Continue reading
Scheduling the Project is a Team Activity
Glen Alleman in What’s Wrong With This Picture says this: dentifying, sequencing, and assigning durations to tasks is NOT the role of the Project Scheduler, it is the role of the project team, along with the Project Scheduler. The … Continue reading
Crossing the Desert Syndrome
I’m close to falling into “Crossing the Desert” syndrome. A project team focuses on an interim milestone, works like the devil to meet that milestone. They meet the milestone, look up, and realize they’re not at the end of … Continue reading
When to Spend Time Architecting
Thierry poses a question I’ve heard in several of my PM workshops this week and last week: When should the team do the architectural work? Thierry’s concerned if his team continues to implement by feature, how can the team … Continue reading
Posted in incremental development
Tagged agile, agile architecture, project team, testing, timebox
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When Requirements Spawn Requirements
A colleague asked me what to do when you’re in an iteration and you realize that the story you’re working on spawns other requirements. I suggested that the person add them to the product backlog (the backlog of everything … Continue reading
Posted in requirements
Tagged agile, feedback, iterative planning, project team, technical debt, transition to agile
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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
Creating Transparency
I was at the Better Software conference last week, met a bunch of great people (including Jim Shore and Joel Spolsky). Another important person is someone who’s not famous–and important nevertheless. A senior tester explained her situation and asked … Continue reading
Project Managers and Technology
A reader was reading Characteristics of Great Project Managers and asked, “Do you feel that to be a great Project Manager one need not know completely about the technology involved?” No. Project managers need to understand enough about the … Continue reading
Are Your Managers Part of Your Team?
I was talking with Don Gray this morning about our work on the AYE Conference. I’m the marketing chair, he’s the program chair. We were discussing the sessions we have so far, and I said we could put one … Continue reading
Construction Metaphor Doesn’t Work for Me
Matisse has an interesting post, Software is like Building Construction. He talks about iterative design and the interdependencies of people with deliverables as being common to construction and software. In my opinion, he’s not all wrong, but he’s not … Continue reading
Posted in product development, project management
Tagged product development, project management, project team
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