Herding Cats

Back from the NDIA ISS-II Agile Conference

The NDIA Information Systems Summit II held in Baltimore was interesting in many ways: The government is seeking ways to improve the effectiveness of their IT dollars by (1) Early and continual involvement, (2) multiple and rapidly executed increments or... Read more →

Quote of the Day - All Success Requires Discipline

Failure to perform each project management process with discipline lays the ground work for project failure. Anyone who says success doesn't require discipline probably hasn't experienced discipline. This is independent of any product development method - agile or traditional. No... Read more →

One of the better tutorial on building a presentation

Nancy Duarte's talk at TEDx East from Duarte Design on Vimeo. Read more →

The Alternative to the Self Serving Agile Approach

The notion that bottom up, self motivated, "it's all about me," view of agile needs to be examined in the context of what kind of software is being built. I don't work in the environment where it is "all about... Read more →

Capabilities

When there is discussion around requirements, requirements gathering, or implementation of requirements there is usually a core principle missing. This is more so in the agile software development world, where "requirements" are represented by stories on sticky notes placed on... Read more →

Project Management Books

While I'm working my way through Management 3.0, here's two recommendations that will get to the point in rapid order, convey ideas in simple language without all the self referencing analogies, and be applicable to specific problems you may encounter... Read more →

Plan First, Then Schedule

These two words should be tattooed on your wrist. If we don’t have a Plan, our schedule is not credible. Plans are not Schedules. And Schedules are not Plans. A Plan is the Strategy for the successful delivery of the... Read more →