Herding Cats

Craked Foundations of Project Managmennt

Some stats: 46% of failed (canceled or over budget) IT projects can be avoided it IT project baselines are more realistic Source: Price Survey Responses, 2006, Price Systems. Price Systems builds cost estimating and forecasting tools. What is even more... Read more →

Construction and Software Development

Working from home today - for the first time in months - and cleaning up the Blog. Came across a Feb 2006 post regarding Construction and Software development. It struck me again how strongly some people can hold an idea... Read more →

Visiting Gantt Again

Hal Macomber provided an interesting post again about the topic of Gantt Charts. He asks the following questions: How is the project going? When will we be done? Some other important questions might be: How much will it cost when... Read more →

Miss Misnformation

When our daughter was in the 5th grade, sher memorized a poem for a class reading titled "Miss Misinformation," from A Pizza the Size of the Sun, Jack Perlutsky. In the poem Miss Misinformation gets nearly everything backwards, wrong or... Read more →

Project Charts

Hal Macomber runs a wonderful blog, something I aspire too if I were more technical and had more spare time. His recent posts on Gantt charts seemed to bring out the best and worst in people. You either love these... Read more →

The Mtyh of Emergence

On the Lean Development forum there is a conversation about emergence. Some suggestions are: Changing requirements are a waste Deferring requirements is better The Apollo program was highly iterative without many requirements The last one caught my eye, since I... Read more →