Are corporate IT project managers a commodity?

Are corporate IT project managers a commodity?

We tend to think of project management, especially for those who practice it, as a set of tools, practices and methods, but what it is…

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Project Management 101: The 5 Ws (and 1 H) that should be asked of every project!

Project Management 101: The 5 Ws (and 1 H) that should be asked of every project!

When your project starts to get complicated it’s time go to back to the fundamentals.  With all the methods, practices, principles, tool and techniques out…

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Shipping software at 20% completion

Shipping software at 20% completion

I just read this very interesting article from The Economist about two very innovative game companies from Japan called DeNA, which has become famous for an addictive game called Blood Brothers and its rival GREE. Theyre both mobile game companie…

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The PMO and Functional Organizations: Square peg in a round hole syndrome

The PMO and Functional Organizations: Square peg in a round hole syndrome

A previous post I did on whether the concept of the PMO was obsolete garnered quite a response.  I posted the question on several LinkedIn…

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Scaling continuous integration at Google

Scaling continuous integration at Google

As a follow up to my post on Continuously controlled integration for Agile development, heres a Google Tech Talk video on using such practices to scale on a massive code base. Heres a snapshot of whats involved:

Even at this size, Google still …

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Webinar on "Transformative Agile Leadership: Making the leap from project manager to agile project leader"

Webinar on “Transformative Agile Leadership: Making the leap from project manager to agile project leader”

I will be giving a webinar for the 2012 ProjectWorld® & World Congress for Business Analysts® that was held in Orlando, Florida on September 10 –…

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The Agile Project Leader's Dilemma

The Agile Project Leader’s Dilemma

Read this great article from the NY times by one of my favorite business writers Clayton Christensen. It was written just a few days before the presidential elections in which Obama came out the eventual victor and discusses the dilemma facing our c…

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Is the concept of the PMO obsolete?

Is the concept of the PMO obsolete?

Just read this eye opening report from the Projects At Work site on the Hackett Group’s research results on the decline of the PMO.  There’s…

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Interview with Villanova University on project management

Interview with Villanova University on project management

Here’s a posting of an interview I gave to Villanova University.  In it I give the typical stuff like my background, education and how I…

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Continuously controlled integration for Agile development

Continuously controlled integration for Agile development

For Agile software development, Im a big advocate of XPs practice of continuous integration. This is the practice where a developer checks in code which triggers an automated system to compile and build the code into the system. One of my early p…

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