Falling Prey to a Simple Message
The simple message is almost always just a useful abstraction of a fuller methodology that needs to be understood.
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How To Do Agile Estimation The Right Way
What had worked for us? Velocity, or better stated, the methodology behind velocity, the average. It always drove people crazy that I'd use averages on my projects.
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Keeping Up Is Fundamentally Hard
The trick here is to learn as we go.
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When Product Success Is Bad For Project Management
Success can be a very bad thing and only perpetuate bad practices, until they finally eat out the soul of the company.
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Scope Creep Should Be Mandatory
Project plans that extend past 90 days are as accurate as TV weather predictions?
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It Sure Sounds Like The Solution To Our Problems
We have all these problems and look here is another tool that says it will fix everything. The tool that finally did fix all our problems was much simpler.
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Why We Don’t Really Need All Those Experts
To put it bluntly, being an expert can be highly overrated.
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Project Managers, How To Stop Making The Same Old Mistakes
Yet study after study, analyst after analyst, say that developers are making the same mistakes they made in 2000. That they made in 1990. And earlier.
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Project Management is Simple But Not Obvious
I spend a lot of time talking about falling back and using simple project management tools when projects are not going as well as expected. Most management, project or otherwise, I always considered pretty simple. Simple doesn't mean easy to do. Often, it is very hard but the right thing to do.
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In Project Management 9+3 Is Not Equal To 12
We know that throwing additional resources at an already late project rarely makes the project run on time. Often it only makes it run later. Similarly, going with an aggressive schedule with an early date for the purpose of actually hitting a later date is equally counterproductive.
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The One Perfect Project Management Methodology
Agile. That's it. Agile. The perfect project management tool or methodology. You can use it in general project management. You can use it in software project management. Don't Google it as you will get confusing things like Agile project management and Scrum. You just want to be agile. Look it up in the dictionary. That is a much better source for the methodology.
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