When to hand off the project

When to hand off the project

And I’m not just talking about when your project ends and you hand over the project to the operations team.  I’m talking about some other…

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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

This particular article titled “Stop All IT Projects!” caught my eye, for the author argues that there is no such thing as an IT project…

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Scrum + Kanban = Scrumban

Scrum + Kanban = Scrumban

You knew it would happen and so it has, with the growing popularity of Kanban in recent years by the Agile community someone was going to merge Scrum with Kanban and call it something cute:Scrumban!(Scrum + Kanban). Before you roll your eyes and shr…

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The New ISO 21500:2012 Guide to Project Management

The New ISO 21500:2012 Guide to Project Management

A new guide by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for project management was finalized and published.  It is listed as the “ISO 21500:2012 –…

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PMI's 2012 "Pulse of the Profession" Report

PMI’s 2012 “Pulse of the Profession” Report

A report just released by PMI on the “Pulse of the Profession” was conducted starting in August 2012 from a representative sample of 1,239 practitioners…

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Special Event! - "Project Management for NON Project Managers" November 15 & 16, 2012

Special Event! – “Project Management for NON Project Managers” November 15 & 16, 2012

I will be teaching a 2 day training seminar titled “Project Management for NON Project Managers” by Carrera Lee training on November 15 & 16, 2012….

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Agile selling retail

Agile selling retail

Yet another adoption of Agile outside of software development presents itself again with this article on how a retail outlet called Oddyssea based in Half Moon Bay, CA, used Agile development principles to deploy their retail operations:

On July 1…

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PMBOK 101: It's all about the plan

PMBOK 101: It’s all about the plan

I found this great graphic from a post by Nader Khorrami Rad, PMP on the Project Smart website: It shows how dominant the planning process has…

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Top ten signs you have been in project or program management too long

Top ten signs you have been in project or program management too long

Read this funny post on the Herding Cats website describing the top ten signs you have been in program management for far too long: You…

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