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What Does Done Mean for Your Project?

One of the problems I see in projects is that there is not a sufficient definition of done. For agile teams, it’s not clear what done means for a timebox. For non-agile projects, the team may not agree on what done means for a milestone or for a... Read more...

Dear Craig - Conversation with Better Projects

Dear Craig, I am an big fan of your blog. You seem to know some amazing stuff I have no clue about. You know Business Analysis, so please tell me… Why is it that my specifications keep on changing? Would be nice to create a plan that doesn't get... Read more...

Measuring Change

I've been engaged in a discussion with a PPM consultant about how to measure change in the IT portfolio. The question goes something like this: "How do we assess the amount of change that certain initiatives will create?" A follow up question could... Read more...

Strategies for Distributed Agile Teams, Part 3

I just wanted to round out my discussion about agile approaches to geographically distributed development (GDD) with a few important words of advice: 1. Get some experience. Worry less about enterprise adoption and instead... Read more...

Editorial May Newsletter - Warum klappt das nicht?

Immer wieder finden wir in den Wirtschaftsteilen unserer Tageszeitung Meldungen Read More →

Virtual Server and Virtual PC SP1 Update Available

With the newly released operating systems updates it now support Windows Server 2008 Windows Vista SP1 Windows XP SP3 Virtual Server 2005 Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a79bcf9b-59f7-480b-a4b8-fb56f42e3348&displaylang=en... Read more...

Screen Capture Software

In case you are wondering what tool I use to make screen captures everyday for documentation/blog posts/emails, here it is (thanks to Jean): ScreenHunter 5.0 Free As it’s name implies, it’s free! In one click (F6) I capture and save images of any... Read more...