The SBOK?  Looks like anyone can create a PM standard these days!

The SBOK? Looks like anyone can create a PM standard these days!

Looks like a brand spanking new Scrum standard has hit the scene and it is titled A Guide to the SCRUM BODY OF KNOWLEDGE (SBOK). I usually keep up with this stuff, but I had heard nothing about this and the only official ScrumBOK I know of is a shor…

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When project managers and their teams are all robots

When project managers and their teams are all robots

One of the most gripped about and contentious topics in project management is how track and control those pesky human resources.  For us in the…

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Has Agile been able to ward off the werewolves?

Has Agile been able to ward off the werewolves?

As we get close to Halloween, it is fitting that we revisit one of the most famous software development articles by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. titled No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering published back in 1987. It was an inte…

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Destroy those organizational silos with project management!

Destroy those organizational silos with project management!

If there’s a common enough phenomenon in organizations whether small or large are that they are often times bogged down by and paralyzed by an…

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What does project management mean to me?

What does project management mean to me?

The first of its kind flashmob blogs on project management are taking place right now!  I’m honored to be included in this illustrious group of…

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Agile is starting to get pretty personal

Agile is starting to get pretty personal

As much as I try to keep up with and write about trends in Agile project management, I always seem to learn something new! Though the trend of applying Agile for personal productivity is nothing new, the fact that there are two published books on th…

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Get a job or work the the portfolio of projects?

Get a job or work the the portfolio of projects?

Of all the management gurus, with the exception Peter Drucker, I consider Charles Handy to be one of last of the breed of management gurus…

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Become a Professional Scrum Master without taking a course

Become a Professional Scrum Master without taking a course

Seems the Scrum certification battles are heating up! The Scrum.org group founded by Ken Schwaber, the original co-founder of Scrum who broke with Scrum Alliance a couple years ago due to his dissatisfaction of where that group was heading, has now …

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Are project managers a necessary evil?

Are project managers a necessary evil?

I recently come across this very interesting article in Forbes magazine where Google, like many technology start-up companies in Silicon Valley, felt that managers were…

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Does Kanban really matter for Agile?

Does Kanban really matter for Agile?

I think it does and this webinar presentation from Scrum.org (the new Scrum organization founded by Ken Schwaber that broke from ScrumAlliance) outlines why Kanban matters for Agile teams:

Its a nice general introduction and for those wit…

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