Agile Talent Gap [Infographic] - Who's hiring and who's hire-able

Agile Talent Gap [Infographic] – Who’s hiring and who’s hire-able

Astudy conducted byYohseems to show that companies advertised a total of 558,918 agile jobs from 2010 to 2012. During the same time period, there were merely 121,876 active candidates, just 17 candidates for every 100 jobs. Of the available job seek…

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Is the PMP a better investment than the MBA?

Is the PMP a better investment than the MBA?

In the short term, I think it is if you’re a project manager. Though I received some considerable flak for my post on the possible…

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Making Agile mandatory at the Department of Defense

Making Agile mandatory at the Department of Defense

As Ive mentioned in a previous post, the US government is adopting Agile even going so far as requiring the use of the method as this section of a 2010 DOD mandate stipulates:

SEC. 804. IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW ACQUISITION PROCESS FOR INFORMATION TEC…

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Since when were paper notebooks evil?

Since when were paper notebooks evil?

I read this very interesting post on the Harvard Business Review (HBR) blog where a writer named Alexandra Samuel proclaims how bringing a paper notebook to…

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Admit it or not, we've all been guilty of abusing PM buzzwords and phrases!

Admit it or not, we’ve all been guilty of abusing PM buzzwords and phrases!

If there’s one big epiphany I’ve have learned over the years as a corporate “Salaryman“, is that a person’s frequency of use of corporate buzzwords…

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Gantthead.com PMXPO 2012 - Managing Agility: Embracing the Benefits of Agile Leadership

Gantthead.com PMXPO 2012 – Managing Agility: Embracing the Benefits of Agile Leadership

    A webinar I gave for Gantthead.com (now called ProjectManagement.com) which I announced last year on this site, is now publicly available.  Here’s a…

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Taiichi Ohno: Founding father of Kanban

Taiichi Ohno: Founding father of Kanban

Im seeing signs where Kanban is becoming what the Gantt chart was to project managers in the 20th century. Its becoming all the rage in Agile and rightly so, since it provides the kind of simple dashboard to visualize where the status of your backlo…

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Speaking at the PMI-LA - Pasadena Morning Meeting January 17, 2013

Speaking at the PMI-LA – Pasadena Morning Meeting January 17, 2013

I will be speaking at the first meeting of PMI-LA’s Pasadena morning meeting for 2013.  It is a great honor and the topic will be…

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Earning value with agility

Earning value with agility

Here’s a nice video presentation by Mark Noneman on using EVM in an Agile world: With the government mandating the use of Agile for government…

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The mindset of the anti-Agile PMO

The mindset of the anti-Agile PMO

I was directed to this interesting QA panel discussion on Agile Portfolio Management by Rally Software that is archived on YouTube:

This post from Scott Dunn ofSoftware Development and Human Capitalhighlights a section f…

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