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What’s the Culture on Your Project?
Now that the election is over, we have an opportunity to reflect on some of the project management and hiring practices. I’m going to blog here and over at Hiring Technical People because the bits are just too juicy to … Continue reading
Posted in project management
Tagged dashboard, HIring Geeks That Fit, program management, project culture, release criteria, risk, schedule game
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Similarities and Differences in Project Management
I’m in Las Vegas waiting to get on a plan to Los Angeles to go to New Zealand for SDC. I led a workshop yesterday for real estate project managers about how to define success and manage some of the … Continue reading
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
Posted in agile
Tagged Manage It, project charter, project management, release criteria, success criteria
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What Does Done Mean for Your Project?
One of the problems I see in projects is that there is not a sufficient definition of done. For agile teams, it’s not clear what done means for a timebox. For non-agile projects, the team may not agree on what … Continue reading
Posted in agile
Tagged project management, project success, release criteria, technical debt, timebox
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When You Don’t Need a Schedule
I’m particular about two things: calling a prose plan a project plan and calling a Gantt chart (or yellow stickies) a schedule. One of my colleagues emailed me last week, explaining he’d spent a week developing a project plan and … Continue reading
Posted in rollingwave, schedule
Tagged Manage It, project management, release criteria, timebox
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Implement the Most Valuable Features First
Scott points out Software Product Delivery – 20 Rules? that you should do the riskiest part of the project first. (He explains that you modify that given what’s most important.) I’d add a further refinement: that what’s most important … Continue reading
Lack of Failure is Not Success
When I teach project management, I teach people to know what success means, and to know what done means (release criteria). One of my students recently emailed me: At work recently, we’ve come upon a scenario where we have … Continue reading
Posted in project management
Tagged project management, release criteria, success criteria
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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
Posted in schedule games
Tagged iterative planning, project charter, project management, release criteria
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Schedule Game #3: Bring Me a Rock
I’ve been talking to a beleaguered colleague about his project schedule. “No matter what date I give them (senior management), they want an earlier date. I told them it doesn’t take nine women to make a baby in one … Continue reading
Release Criteria Define What “Done” Means
Want to make sure you complete your project as early as possible? Define release criteria. Release criteria are the few critically important objective criteria that define what “done” means for your project. Sometimes, it’s a combination of date, defects, … Continue reading
Posted in release criteria
Tagged project management, project success, project team, release criteria
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