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The Twilight Zone Approach to Business Decision Making

When we hear about focusing on value first, delivery early and often, there is rarely any mention of the cost of that delivery. Or anything about the customers ability to accept those early and often deliveries and actually put them... Read more →

How Many Definitions Are There? Let Me Count the Ways

In any discussion of project management, software development, and business management, agreeing on a shared set of definitions is critical por progress in exchanging ideas. When standard definitions are redefined to suit the needs of those conjecturing a new approach,... Read more →

Risk Management Is How Adults Manage Projects: Agile is Not Risk Management (Alone)

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister Here's a formal definition of Risk Management. Risk management is an endeavor that begins with requirements formulation and assessment, includes the planning and conducting of a technical risk reduction phase... Read more →

Hofstadter's Law Is Misguided

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law — Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Hofstadter's Law is actually about self-referencing systems. The statement about how long it takes... Read more →