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Written by Allan Kelly
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 00:00 |
 Agile software development continues its forward march. Technical practices like Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration introduced by Extreme Programming at the start of the decade are now common place. The short sprints and product backlogs of Scrum are changing the way development work is project managed. Yet to fully realise the benefits of Agile companies need to change how they go about project governance.
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Written by Brent Douglas Bryan
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Monday, 15 June 2009 00:00 |
 Professionals involved in manufacturing are likely familiar with the term “Lean” or “Lean manufacturing”. However, those outside of manufacturing might never have heard the term or are only just beginning to hear the term in business conversation. This is because the application of Lean outside of the manufacturing sector is relatively new; however, Lean is gaining acceptance in other industries, such as: healthcare, government, education, service, and retail.
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Written by The Lazy Project Manager (Peter Taylor)
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Saturday, 13 June 2009 00:00 |
 What is productive laziness?
'Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.' Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
By advocating being a 'lazy' project manager I do not intend that we should all do absolutely nothing. I am not saying we should all sit around drinking coffee, reading a good book and engaging in idle gossip whilst watching the project hours go by and the non-delivered project milestones disappear over the horizon. That would obviously be plain stupid and would result in an extremely short career in project management, in fact probably a very short career full stop!
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Written by Marilyn Karp
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Saturday, 06 June 2009 00:00 |
Project management is not about methodologies. It’s about being on top of all the details. It’s about creating order from the chaos, it’s about making yourself the go to guy. When people have a question or a problem you want them to come to you. Not because you have all the answers but because it’s your job to tell know who has the answer and/or to help them find a solution. It’s about finding out who the experts are, what the process is.
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Written by Steven Bonacorsi
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Thursday, 28 May 2009 00:00 |
 The concepts surrounding the drive to Six Sigma quality are essentially those of
statistics and probability. In simple language, these concepts boil down to, “How confident can I be that what I planned to happen actually will happen?” Basically, the concept of Six Sigma deals with measuring and improving how close we come to delivering on what we planned to do.
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Written by Joel Plaut
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009 00:00 |
There is tremendous benefit in having all project costs within a project plan. The project plan becomes the single and central reference point for all project costs; both incurred (actual) and planned.
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Written by Nari Kannan
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 00:00 |
 Computer hardware and software technology changes so fast compared to other fields of engineering like Chemical Engineering, or Civil Construction, that we are all tempted to use the understanding-by-analogy method.
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