Project Shrink Links 11-9-2007

The 7 Pillars of IT-Enabled Team Productivity “Overall productivity takes a hit when teams are forced to use software applications that do not facilitate shared team activities. As an organization changes to embrace the project team as an organizing construct”specifically those with representation both from multiple internal functional areas and external experts”what are the key …

Managing Agile Projects

Managing Agile Projects is a book edited by Kevin Aguanno, a noted speaker and educator on agile project management. It describes techniques for managing projects in environments where the scope is constantly changing. This book is about techniques common to nearly all of the agile development methods (Extreme Programming, Scrum, Feature Driven Development, DSDM, Lean …

Information Radiators and Batman

When the city of Gotham needs Batman, they will project the Bat-logo high into the sky for everybody to see. Including Batman himself. Wherever he will be, he will get the information without a doubt (Unless it is clouded, he is locked in the Batcave, or gets problems with his eye-sight). The lesson from Batman …

Project Sociology – Part 2 (repost)

This is a repost of the original Project Sociology article/video. In the first episode of this series I used a very simplified model of how stakeholder behavior is determined: Stakeholders have needs Based upon there needs and their perception of project reality they will choose a strategy that benefits them most. The execution of this …

Project Sociology – Part One (repost)

This is a repost of the original Project Sociology article/video. I removed the old one a while ag o oops. In this first episode I will discuss how project people look at each other to measure them selves. Projects are all about people. Its the human element that determines the success or failure of this …