Not Enough Slack in My Diet
July 23, 2006
I've been in a bit of a crunch at work and at home and now it's time to get back to sharing my experiances from the trenches. I have a few more Scrum sprints under my belt since I first started this blog. What Scrum does rather nicely is focus the team... Read more...
Inch-Pebbles
March 24, 2006
Several years ago, Johanna Rothman wrote a facinating article on how to use the concept of Inch Pebbles as a way to measure the progress of a project. The idea is to define tasks to create the project's deliverables for the project so that they typically... Read more...
Driven to Distraction
March 19, 2006
I just read a great article titled "Driven to Distraction"in the Sunday newspaper by Betty Lin-Fisher about the common distractions in the work place. I know that I get somewheres up to 200 messages each day and very seldom to I get a message that I need... Read more...
Welcome
March 19, 2006
Welcome to my blog. As a program manager for a major software company for many years, I've seen plenty of projects fail or simply take much longer than originally planned. This blog explores how the "right" level of project management can be used to achieve... Read more...