Why doesn't project management make people's heart sing?

Why doesn’t project management make people’s heart sing?

One of my favorite publications that I read every week from cover to cover is The Economist and chance would have it that I ran…

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Who says you have to iterate in Agile?

Who says you have to iterate in Agile?

I saw this interesting thread in a LinkedIn discussion group for Agile and Lean Software Development,that questions the the common perception of Agile being an iterative method and process. Im guilty of this myself as I often talk about Agile method…

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PMI-LA Spring 2013 PMP Workshop - April 6 to May 11, 2013

PMI-LA Spring 2013 PMP Workshop – April 6 to May 11, 2013

For those who are looking to obtain their PMP certification, look no further than your the PMI-LA chapter’s PMP preparation workshop!  The purpose of this…

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US innovation alive and well with Lean & Kanban!

US innovation alive and well with Lean & Kanban!

In part one of my Kanban and Beyond series of articles, I discuss the manufacturing roots of Kanban that many of us in the IT project management industry are not aware of that originated in Japan for Toyota over 30 years ago. But this may give the p…

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The PM in perpetual career transition

The PM in perpetual career transition

I previously wrote about the importance of being able to sell as a core competency of the project manager.  Some recent news about the prolonged jobless…

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Kanban for Team Foundation Service in VS 2012

Kanban for Team Foundation Service in VS 2012

Heres an interesting video on how Kanban is implemented in TFS for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 toolsets:

TFS is a service that allows you to remotely manage your software development efforts both locally and with remote teams. Intere…

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Like it or not, project managers are in sales

Like it or not, project managers are in sales

Daniel Pink is one of my favorite general business authors that’s in the same league as a Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin and others who use…

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It's always about culture and the people

It’s always about culture and the people

And sure enough, this post by InfoWorld quotes a survey done by VersionOne on the leading cause of Agile failure:

In the surveys seventh year, we dug a bit deeper into why agile initiatives fail and found that in two-thirds of the cases, it was ei…

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