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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A Rebuttal: Has the PMP fad peaked?  Good or bad?

A Rebuttal: Has the PMP fad peaked? Good or bad?

In my previous post titled “Is the PMP at the tail end of the hype cycle?”, I never claim my data points prove anything, but…

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Is the PMP at the tail end of the hype cycle?

Is the PMP at the tail end of the hype cycle?

At a recent talk I gave for PMI-LA’s North LA county meetup, was on the dilemma of what to do after obtaining the PMP.  As…

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The cult of Agile revisited

The cult of Agile revisited

Almost a year from today, I wrote a post on the cult of Agile where some in the community were so adamant in their beliefs and passion for Agile being the one and only true way to manage software development projects (and in some extreme cases, all …

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The genealogy of project scheduling

The genealogy of project scheduling

I ran into this post from Pat Weaver of the Mosaic Project blog discussing the failure of project scheduling and how this is caused by…

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The future of you: Projectpreneurship

The future of you: Projectpreneurship

I’ve written quite a bit on this site about the synergies between project management and entrepreneurship with what I like to call “projectpreneurship“.  With the…

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