I Am Not a Specialist, I Am a Manager
There is a rank in the Army called “Specialist”. There used to be about 3 levels: Specialist 4th Class, Specialist 5th Class, Specialist 6th Class (pretty rare), but by the time I entered, they were...
View ArticleShould You Pursue PMP Certification?
There’s an interesting article at Project Manager Planet titled “PMP Certification: Is It Worth It?” The gist of the article is that it is worth it if you are a practicing project manager. Beyond...
View ArticleHighlights From Seth’s Blog
Most of you know by now that I enjoy Seth Godin’s blog. You’d be amazed how many of his posts relate to project management as well. Here are some highlights from this month: 1. “All storms are...
View Article‘Forty five percent (45%!) of project costs industry-wide is rework’
That’s the claim that Jamal Moustafaev makes in “Who Needs Walkthroughs, Inspections and Peer Reviews?”. That is a sobering statistic, but it only tells part of the story. When you remember that a $1...
View ArticleTaking Over the Loser Project
In case you missed the comment, The Corporate Sleuth over at the Survive and Thrive in the Corporate World blog posted “Myth: Loser Projects are for Losers“. The author makes a decent case that the...
View Article“We Found a Bug!” How Should Support Be Handled?
Over at Agile Chronicles, Mike Cottmeyer posted “Handling Support on Agile Teams”, but as even he himself says, “This is a problem not unique to agile teams. Software organizations have been struggling...
View ArticleWhat Is Agile Software Development?
One of the best explanations I’ve seen yet of Agile is the article “10 Key Principles of Agile Software Development” over all All About Agile. Not only does the author give a good summary of some key...
View ArticleCloud Computing Risks
I have posted an article about yesterday’s “Gmail Outage & Cloud Computing” on my new blog. You certainly need to consider outages as an identified risk for cloud computing and develop appropriate...
View ArticleRailing Against Project Bureaucrats
Being a project manager is walking a fine line. Many mistake project management for doing EVM, making a schedule, filling out a charter, and so on. These are functions of a PM, but they are not the...
View ArticleSocial Media Here, Social Media There, Social Media Everywhere
Not long ago, I posted “Mixing Social Networking & Business”. In that article, I drive into the ground (or, did I beat a dead horse?) the point that social networking without a strategy will...
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