Project Server 2010 – Even more reasons to keep your server clocks in sync
As we in the US (or most of us) have just changed our clocks for daylight savings this is a great time to talk synchronization of server clocks. The first section talks about things running slow, and was also applicable to 2007. If this doesn’t... Read more...
Conflicting Incentives and other Economic Principles
One of my all time favorite books is by William Easterly and is entitled The Elusive Quest For Growth: Economists’ Misadventures in the Tropics. I read this book as part of a class in grad school and whenever I'm in a BA role, the book is never... Read more...
Why 3 Point Estimates Create False Optimism
A recent post at PM Hut describes the process of capturing 3-Point estimates for schedule. This is an example of Yogi's quote in actionIn theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi BerraWhile it may be appropriate... Read more...
Project Management Sayings – Rewind
Part 1 - I thought the statements below made a lot of sense, or were humorous. Look for part two next week. Good estimators aren't modest: if it's huge they say so. The sooner you begin coding the later you finish. A verbal contract isn't worth the... Read more...
RESEARCH AND MARKETS, LTD.; The Book an Adventure in Service-Learning Examines Service-Learning in Project Management, Leadership and Management Consultancy
Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c7787b/an_adventure_in_se) has announced the addition of the "An Adventure in Service-Learning" report to their offering. Read More →
A new way to think about RACI
Do you use the RACI model to help with stakeholder management? RACI is a way of categorising stakeholders to help define their roles and responsibilities, and it is also useful for communications plans. The most common way to see RACI used is in tabular... Read more...
Swim Season
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Tips and Tricks: Mark a single task on the Calendar
In my last Tips and Tricks blog I introduced the Calendar view in Project, a very familiar and popular way to present task information for instant reporting. Here is another trick you can do on the Calendar— format single tasks differently than other... Read more...
Requirements Documents in an iPad World
One of the items which I have intermittently struggled with as a BA is how to properly format requirements documents. It has always frustrated me that requirements documents created in a word processor are tied to the default paper size for... Read more...
Do you like plain Vanilla SCRUM or Flavored :) ??
This cartoon by Mike Vidoz made me write this post. ( Im a fan of his SCRUM toons :)-But I wish if he has new cartoons coming up more often ;-) ) And if you want to know which SCRUM I like, I like strawberry toping SCRUM. :) yummieee.. Plain Vanilla... Read more...