Yes, it is that time of the year. Well, almost. I want to start early this year with my “Best of 2007″ series… I hope I am the first… my Top 5 Project Management Blogs. The ranking is based upon the 5 blogs I shared or starred the most in my RSS reader. The blogs …
Its difficult to really put your finger on the subject of stakeholder interests. It is more a guessing game than a science, so we need to make as much sense of the topic as we can. I conducted a small study on visitors to my website who work on software projects, in an effort to …
If your project team is spread all over the globe, you will sometimes scare yourself with the amount of prejudice you have when dealing with people from different cultures. I know I do. Humans have a tendency to categorize everything, including people. Stereotyping can be dangerous, because it tries to say something about an entire …
Every element of a project method has a reason. If you know the reason, you know when to apply or use this method component. To explain this, I created a small sample using Scrum, and I turn to some global observations about it. I use the word globalĀ as I will not go into every …
Or “Yes, You Can Mix and Match” Just to reassure you: yes, you can use different techniques together. I will take as an example the usage of burn-down charts as described for Crystal Clear. However, this technique can also be found elsewhere, as in Scrum and Extreme Programming. A burn-down chart is a chart that …