Podcast episode 010: interview with Cornelius Fichtner
July 25, 2007
Today’s episode is an interview with the person I consider to be the “Father of the Project Management Podcast”, Mr. Cornelius Fichtner. Cornelius is the host of The PM Podcast and the Project Management Prepcast. During the interview... Read more...
Agile Project Management: What’s In It For The Customers?
July 24, 2007
One question I'm asked frequently is how Agile project management is different from traditional project management.Normally I start talking about iterations, planning, user stories, and the like, but I get a decent number of blank stares in response.I... Read more...
Episode 035 - Fiddler on the Project
July 24, 2007
On today’s episode, I speak with Rich Maltzman, the co-author (with Ranjit Biswas) of a new project management book, Fiddler on the Project. A great new project management book with a twist … correlating project management with the story... Read more...
“Failure sucks, but instructs” - Bob Sutton
July 23, 2007
Click above for an interesting blog entry by Bob Sutton on the Harvard Business Online website. The article provides a summary of recent studies that looked at how individuals\teams\organizations learn better from their successes and failures, as opposed... Read more...
July 23, 2007 – Random Quotes, Sayings and Definitions
July 23, 2007
I’ve started collecting sayings and words of wisdom having to do with project management. Some of them may eventually become entries on their own, but most of them are just a little too random. So today I’m going to pull a bunch of them together and... Read more...
07/23/07 Tip of the Week. SharePoint: Tip 5 - Use SharePoint as the hub.
July 23, 2007
Companies make significant investments in people and technologies. With IT staff already overburdened, it is not surprising to find little support and enthusiasm for implementing yet another complex, high maintenance vendor application. The result is... Read more...
CMMI, the Beginning
July 21, 2007
This posting will introduce CMMI and some basic concepts. To understand how to bridge Agile and CMMI, I mentioned in an earlier posting that I need to understand CMMI and its core concepts and requirements to a much deeper level than I do now. This... Read more...
Soft Skills Survey - More results on the most important skills
July 20, 2007
As part of the Arras People Soft Skills Survey we asked participants to rate the relevant importance of the following soft skills - Consistency, Interfacing, Decisive, Structuring, Relationship Builder, Understanding and Communicating. No participant... Read more...
39: The Source of Power
July 20, 2007
Last Saturday the weather was good at last, so as planned, we took the steam train from Paignton to Kingswear then walked up the River Dart, over hills and valleys and through Long Wood, to Dittisham. They had warnings out about adders but all we saw... Read more...
PM Hut
July 20, 2007
PMHut.com recently asked to republish my articles on their site. I gladly agreed because the site looked good on first blush, and since then have found the site to be a gem. No, not because my own articles are on there, but because this site draws articles... Read more...