Nice Review of Manage It!
I’m pleased that here are several nice reviews of Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management. See the most recent: The Library’s post. Labels: Manage It, project
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Product Development Survey
Every two years, my good friend and colleague, Brad Goldense, gathers research about the state of product development metrics. It’s that time again. Here’s the information: GGI
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When Is Defect Data Not About Defects?
I taught my Pragmatic Project Management workshop in Israel last week. I was talking about defect charts and what they mean and how I use them. (No, I don’t include priority or severity data on defect charts; just # opened and closed by week and # remaining open each week. One of the participants
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Portfolio Management is Not Project Management
While teaching a management class recently, one participant came up to me at a break, and said, “Why are you teaching us project management with this portfolio stuff? This is supposed to be a management workshop.” Portfolio management, determining which projects to fund and when, is management work. The best managers actively manage the
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Schedule Game column is up
My Eliminating the 90% Done Schedule Game Stickyminds column is up. Enjoy! For those of you who remember the schedule game series from a few years ago, yes, this is one of the games. I added several more and wrote more in Manage It!.
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Whose Standup Is It?
Esther and I were teaching a Behind Closed Doors tutorial at Better Software yesterday. One of the participants was a program manager. He couldn’t see the value of the standup meetings the Scrum teams used every day. “They talk to each other all the time–why do they need the standup? I can’t see the
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Better Speaking Naturally (Not Through Chemistry)
I work hard on my speaking skills–not just how I present myself on the platform, but also the content of what I say, and how I present that. I’ve almost converted to Keynote, but occasionally still use PowerPoint. For AYE, we don’t use any PowerPoint (or equivalent) at all. Here’s why. If you scroll down,
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Manage it! is Available
Drum roll please… Manage It! Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project Management is available. (I don’t know when it will be available from Amazon. Soon, I suspect.) See the press release. I’m sooo excited. Labels: Manage It, project management
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Two Good Rules
In his recent IEEE Software column, “Ship Effortlessly” J.B. Rainsberger has a gem: I start each project with two rules: all source files must be in a version control repository, and the build must be fully automated at all times. Does your project follow these rules? If not, what would you have to do?
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Services to the Organization
There are several questioning comments on my post Testing is Not a Service: What do I mean by testing and how do I reconcile my statement with the context-driven school of testing? Let me clarify what I mean by service first. The way the participants were discussing testing as a service, they meant a common