Monday Morning Links – 2nd November
November 2, 2009
Oh, Lisa! You and your stories! “Dad, Bart is a vampire.” “Beer kills brain cells.” Now, let’s get back to that… building thingy… where our beds and T.V… is. Homer Simpson The supposed horrors of halloween... Read more...
Masterclass in Sloppy Project Management – News of a Public Sector IT headache
March 16, 2009
With recent media investigations dealing with the extent of government waste, this item is not comforting to public sector project management professionals. We’ve reviewed ContractorUK’s report on this story, but more reports are available... Read more...
The end of the IT Project Manager is Nigh!!!!
March 6, 2009
..unless you change, This was the startling revelation given by Mike Watson and Steve Hill during their presentation of Project Success Planning at the latest event held by the North West Branch of the APM. In a world characterised by success, it is a... Read more...
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September 14, 2008
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...
Laws Of Software Development
July 19, 2007
Phil Hack has listed 19 Eponymous Laws of Software Development. Notice number three… Read More →
Agile and CMMi
July 15, 2007
Disclaimer: this blog post won’t answer any major questions. It is going to raise more questions than answer them and it will leave us hanging at the end. So with that intriguing lead… here we go. Last Friday I attended a presentation by Scott... Read more...
Chaos Report Background
July 13, 2007
After my last post discussing the Standish Group someone brought to my attention an interview done by Deborah Hartman, an Editor at InfoQ, with Jim Johnson from the Standish Group. In the interview he explains the history of the research, the method and... Read more...
Making A Difference
July 13, 2007
I started this blog a few days ago. I mentioned Zoho 2 days ago. I had a comment from Raju at Zoho yesterday thanking me for using it and hoping I like it. I mentioned the other blog where I told you he talked about how he was impressed how they... Read more...
We’re Making Headway
July 13, 2007
The textbook I have been using in the course the last 4 semesters, Information Technology Project Management, 4th Edition, Kathy Schwalbe, uses excerpts from the Standish Groups 2003 Chaos Report. Some of the data sited are cost overruns at a rate of... Read more...