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PMBOK and Agile Article

On AgileLeadership forum there is a reference to an article by Michele Slinger describing the relationship between PMBOK and Agile titled Relating PMBOK to Agile Practices. This fine set of articles suggest there are similarity's between PMBOK processes and agile... Read more →

Source of Optimism

Any process that combines unlimited "wants" with limited resources yields optimism. In the case of an agile development project without a bounded scope, master plan for delivering that scope, and an understanding of the "capacity for work" of the development... Read more →

Agile Planning

The continued discussion of what's agile project management needs an example from the real world. Jim Highsmith is fond of using hiking examples. That'll work here as well. Our End Goal The end goal needs to be defined in most... Read more →

Planning, Scheduling and Execution

The discussion of "why do projects fail" is many times based on the premise that since projects live in a chaotic world, there is no motivation to do good project management practices in this world. One of the project management... Read more →

Hope is not a Strategy

On the Agile Project Management Forum (APM) there's several threads about agile development and agile project management. Actually very little about agile project management, even though the forum is about agile project management. But that's another story. What's fundamentally missing... Read more →

Deadlines

He's never met a deadline he couldn't miss ...was the phrase of the day in our morning brief. The concept of deadline is foreign to many project members. Defining what done looks like requires that deadlines be established for delivering... Read more →