An introduction to Agile Project Leadership – Part 1
January 24, 2007
On Thursday 25th I will be presenting on “Agile Project Leadership” at the PMI Southern Alberta Chapter. These sessions normally attract a diverse group of project managers from a variety of industries. I am looking forward to the opportunity to spread... Read more...
2006 UK Conference Report - Theory into Practice
January 23, 2007
The 2006 3 day event was held at the Hilton Metropole Birmingham and was considered one of the best conferences that the itSMF have put together! Delegate numbers were up by 15%. The topic this year was “Theory into Practice”, with 5 streams, and... Read more...
Shotgun: Improving the Drawing Code
January 23, 2007
When we went to the unit square implementation of PatterningSheet and ShotPattern, we stopped after the FitNesse tests ran, but before we modified our image-drawing spikes. Here, we complete that implementation and clean up the code as we do it. Read More →
Random week-end (fast) web readings
January 22, 2007
After conducting this test (takes 5 minutes for the first test..), I must admit I am a typical procrastinator (but maybe you are too...) (I defer very important thinks to do, creating permanent stress for myself...). I like this article and formula... Read more...
Week 20 - (Building a PMO) Reporting
January 20, 2007
I’ve been thinking about reporting a good bit lately. What makes good reports? What type of reporting is the PMO responsible for? When? What? To whom? And so on. I have been working recently on streamlining the reporting we are doing on the project... Read more...
01/22/07 Tip of the Week. Sales Process: Tip 9 - Use customer references effectively.
January 20, 2007
When providing customer references to a sales prospect, ensure the following three conditions are met. First, the prospect is qualifed and all issues and requirements needed to make a purchase decision have been satisfied. Second, the customer reference... Read more...
Agile Leadership Domain
January 18, 2007
The Venn diagram shown here (click on it for a larger view)was created to help explain the context of agile project leadership (shown in orange). It is intended to illustrate the inclusion of elements from the Agile Methods, Leadership Theory and Traditional... Read more...
A couple recent ITIL posts and my thoughts
January 18, 2007
Interesting, skeptical take on ITIL, by a person (Noel Bruton) with some apparent long term presence in the industry. He claims that there are four schools of thought with respect to configuration management: Those who haven't finished their config... Read more...
PMO Reporting
January 15, 2007
Reporting is often viewed as a less-than-glamorous responsibility of the PMO. I think that reporting is probably one of the most visible methods that a PMO can show value. The PMO reports go to management and those managers and executives make decisions... Read more...
Marketing your PMO
January 15, 2007
Yes, Marketing your PMO. Good, bad or otherwise, this is one of the primary jobs of the PMO Director. If the leader of the PMO is not doing this, then who will be? You want your organization to grow in knowledge and capability and you want to share... Read more...