Herding Cats

Concept of Emergence Fundamentally Flawed

While listening to a lecture from Wayne Wymore - Professor of Systems Engineering, University of Arizona - I came to a new understanding of one of sacred cows of agile development and agile project management - emergence. The requirements emerge,... Read more →

Level of Detail

A post on PM-Fu asks "how much detail is enough?" One answer is What is the amount of time, money or technical performance you are willing to put "at risk"? In other words what is your level of risk tolerance... Read more →

Testing Agile Hypothesis

Papers on agile can be found at George Dinwiddle's WIKI on this topic. Lots of good reading here, but some troubling approaches. First let me give my point of view. I'm from a very biased training and experience background -... Read more →

MSFT Project Gripes

I've just spent 6 weeks building an Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule (IMP/IMS) for a proposal effort. Using MSFT Project 2003 10 to 12 hours a day has revealed some things that drive me crazy (same things are... Read more →