I have worked in many different types of projects: large government contract with more than 600 people; small projects with five to seven people; software development projects with fewer than 60 people; client organizations in different industries. In all of my experience, I have never worked on a project where the teams worked with no… Continue reading Some agileist live in an alternative universe
TDWI recommends the implementation of a Business Intelligence (BI) and analytic Competency Center (CC) or Center of Excellence (CoE).
People need to collaborate on projects. As a follow to our blog post we want to know what type of tools are most used. Take our poll to help answer this question: Poll!
For managing projects in general and agile projects in particular we need to collaborate with project team members, communicate milestones, interact with clients, solve problems, and share folders, project documents, reports and tasks in real time. All this even being distributed around the world. So, the questions are how to manage such a project in… Continue reading Collaborative Tools for your Agile and Distributed Teams
While searching for agile project examples, I discovered a white paper published by Fergal Mc. Govern, CEO and founder of Visible Thread, who found that IT Directors, Project Managers and Business Analyst Team Leads raised the question about the Project Documentation across a portfolio of projects. Fergal Mc. Govern explicitly describes how to apply agile… Continue reading Guidance on Project Documentation in Agile Projects
If you need to decide how to proceed in a project, the book “Going Agile – Project Management Practices” starts with a guidance on if and how to move over to an agile methodology. The first two chapters explain what it means what changes for which projects agile practices are applicable. Even more, the benefits… Continue reading Going Agile – What does it mean?
In Chapter 17 of “Going Agile Project Management Practices” we discuss the need to work with the finance department to establish new practices to capitalize agile project. Daniel R Greening, Ph.D., the Managing Director of Senex Rex, has published a good article on this topic: Why Should Agilists Care About Capitalization?
Once upon a time.. I was very naive to think I could spend a few days or weeks to write a book: “Going Agile Project Management Practices”. I just wanted to document some of my experience about project management specifically being agile. Well, in the end the book project took six months and involved about… Continue reading 2013…What a year! maxmetrics successes and challenges
At the PMI Global Congress in New Orleans, I will present 10 to 12 techniques and practices that can be used to avoid or minimize the common challenges and problems faced in agile projects.
In the book “Going Agile Project Management Practices”, I describe the use of a color-coded probability and impact matrix for classifying risks. (Figure 1) Visualizing the probability, impact, and severity of risks is a great tool for engaging project team members in risk management. Figure 1 Example Risk Matrix as Excel Bubble Chart