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Tag Archives: success criteria
Why Do You Want To…
Because I’m a consultant, I receive emails with a question, “Do you consult in <fill in this blank>?” Many times I do. But the real question is. “What is your objective?” or “Why do you want to do <this thing>?” … 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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Discuss Results, Not Tasks
I spoke with a program manager who’d been displaced from his program because he doesn’t scream or yell at people. (No, I’m not making this up. This is true.) He’s an effective program manager, because he doesn’t tell people to … Continue reading
Posted in program management
Tagged leadership, management, project management, success criteria
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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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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
