I’ve been busy the last few weeks (as you can tell by the paucity of posts :-). I’ve been working with project managers, Scrum Masters, and technical leads who have been thrust into the role of Scrum Master. Here are some examples of the problems these nice folks have had: “When I want to use
Adam, from Write That Down, likes Manage it!. Here’s what he has to say: There is a great book called Manage It!, by Johanna Rothman. She does not disappoint, and really gets into the nitty gritty details about managing projects. While this is billed as a “project management” effort, it really does apply to product
Read Eric Sink’s Exception Handling in Running a Business. He says: In entrepreneurship, there is no substitute for good judgment. I would modify that to “In management, there is no substitute for good judgment.”
I have a new column posted at Stickyminds: What Project Managers Need To Know About Testing. Also, check out the podcast related to the article.
I’m proud to announce that Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management is a Jolt Award finalist. Andy made a short video you might like to see. I’m excited. Manage It! is up against other fine books, so there’s no guarantee it will win an award. But it’s very exciting to have made
Tom Cagley, of Software Process and Measurement fame, interviewed me a couple of weeks ago. The podcast is here. Enjoy!
Daniel Steinberg, my editor for Manage It! interviewed me a couple of weeks ago. The podcast is here. We discussed some of the issues I’ve seen in organizations on projects. Some of the ideas we discussed were: What does the project manager do, even for an agile project? Has anything changed in project management? What
There’s an car dealership advertising a multiple-point certification for pre-owned vehicles. To me that translates into “checklist for used cars.” That’s what a certification for people based on book knowledge is also–a checklist that a person knew the right answer. Nothing about the experience or if the experience that led to that knowledge was successful.
I’ve also used Agile life cycles (Scrum with different size timeboxes) in combination on a project. Here, the developers in the corporate location had a series of features that were big. I did suggest they break the features apart into smaller chunks for ease of estimation and implementation, but they didn’t want to 🙂 The
I’ve used another variation on multiple life cycles, especially for larger projects where the project staff or project management didn’t want to or know how to use an agile life cycle. This combination life cycle has two incremental pieces. The developers (at the top of the picture) use Staged Delivery. Since this is not an