What really motivates teams?

What really motivates teams?

Found this info-graphic (I love these forms of displaying captivating information in a single graph) on how to motivate employees on the rypple.com site that…

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Free Market Project Manager?

Free Market Project Manager?

On the Projects@Work site, there’s a series of articles advocating that project managers adopt and or work within a pure free market environment by writer…

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Building a car in 90 days using Scrum!

Building a car in 90 days using Scrum!

In line with my recent postings about Agile/Scrum being deployed outside software development, heres a TED video about a sports car called Wikispeed that was built and deployed using Scrum and crowdsourcing:

As further proof of this movem…

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Demand for project managers on the rise in India

Demand for project managers on the rise in India

This article from the “India Economic Times” seems to indicate that despite the overall global downturn of the economy,that the hiring of project managers is…

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The genetic structure of high performance teams

The genetic structure of high performance teams

I was directed to the following graphic on Gantthead’s Facebook page, which I think is a great outline of the ingredients required for high performing teams:

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Agile for radio program development?

Agile for radio program development?

Ive written numerous blogs here about Agile practices and methods that go outside of software development such as my recent one about thegovernmentadoption of Agile, to orchestras that are runwithoutconductors, and evenbabyplanning using Scrum. Anot…

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Book Review: Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling

Book Review: Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling

The following is based on a book review of Harold Kerzner‘s project management “bible” titled, “Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling“, that…

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Agile government?

Agile government?

I had a chance to read the US GAO report on the use of Agile in the government sector in its entirety. It has some pretty eye opening facts. Apparently (and not surprisingly) the government is waking up to the incredible waste that goes on with proc…

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The rings of project, program and portfolio management

The rings of project, program and portfolio management

I found this nice summary of the relationship between project, program and portfolio management on the Gantthead.com Facebook page: The graphic is from an Italian…

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