Episode #6 - Planning - Failure to plan is planning to fail.
August 14, 2006
Episode #6 – Planning Process Notes - Failure to plan is planning to fail. Shaw Project Management, LLC eShawPM Podcast Series! By Ernest Shaw, PMP Project management plans are literally the backbone of each and every project. As such, a weak... Read more...
Argentina Scrum - Day 4/5/6
August 14, 2006
Little to report. Slept most of Thursday, followed by a trip to Buenos Aires Opera House to see a Wagner concert (okay, not exactly Latin American culture, but my host already had the tickets). We wondered the theatre district and ate pizza that night. ... Read more...
Conference session title faux pas
August 13, 2006
So, I was surprised to see my session at this fall's DCI Enterprise Architecture conference entitled simply: Does Enterprise IT Matter? The intended title and abstract are: The Barefoot Cobbler’s Child: An Enterprise Architecture for IT Governance Does... Read more...
Start your own hedge fund
August 12, 2006
If you're an equities trader like me, you must hear a lot about hedge funds...big returns, lots of money, set for life. So why not start your own? How hard could it be?Could this be indicative of a hedge fund... Read More →
Where are the CIO’s?
August 12, 2006
Good article at CIO Insight that makes you think: Why Business Schools Aren't Turning Out Good CIO Candidates.Most of my CIO friends and clients these days are business managers who currently happen to manage IT, rather than career technologists who... Read More →
Argentina Scrum - Day 3
August 10, 2006
Scrum In A Box So… they say that Scrum is not an “off the shelf” methodology. Well, wouldn’t it be nice if it was? Time to create Scrum In A Box – the ultimate off-the-shelf methodology for the smart, bargain-hunting Software... Read more...
Quote of the day: CHAOS debunked and Standish discredited?
August 10, 2006
The Standish Report has been a longstanding IT bugaboo, consistently indicating abysmally low project success rates in software engineering (and overshadowing any other research in the popular IT press on this topic). Now Robert Glass, author of Software... Read more...
Argentina Scrum - Day 2
August 9, 2006
The Falklands War, 1982, Diego Maradona and the Hand of God, 1986, Andreas my next-door-neighbor in London, 1993-99, The ear-torturing Evita, 1978, German refugees, polo, the tango, red wine, high quality beef… Yep, that’s about it, the... Read more...
Argentina Scrum - Day 1
August 8, 2006
Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am here to teach a two-day public CSM course. To the best of my knowledge, this will be the first public CSM course to be taught in South America: an exciting, and scary prospect. I speak no Spanish and... Read more...
This is the kind of website every web designer should design
August 8, 2006
I just signed up with www.carbonite.com, a web-based backup solution. The process meets almost every criteria I can think of for a positive web-based ecommerce service: - First, I heard about the service from a respected colleague, so I was already predisposed... Read more...