Planning for the new Job
In my last blog I mentioned that I recently received a job offer at a new company. This started me …
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Implementing project management
What’s Required of Requirement Management?
Good Requirement Management is perhaps the most important factor in many projects’ successes or failures. Some research had mentioned that …
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Practical Test Management
It sort of pains me to even have to write about #4 on my list of mandatory practices (see Tuesday’s …
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Practical Change Management
That requirements will change is a given. How you plan for and manage that change is crucial. Think about what …
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Practical Requirements Management
There is a set of SW practices that I consider non-negotiable, and they begin with 2 that are requirements-related: 1. …
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Practical Software Practices
At my last company we took pride in the amount of work we were able to accomplish with a very …
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Customer Service
I was listening to an NPR talk show segment about customer service last week. It was mainly about being on …
Henry Ford would tell you, Methodologies (PMI, Agile, PRINCE2, etc.), like History, are Bunk
Dr. Martin Luther King used to end speechs by quoting a prayer from an old slave preacher. It’s an apt …
I think I Nailed It – Commercial World Wants the BA – CHEAP!
Oh yeah, more anecdotal data tells me silicon valley wants SO MUCH MORE for so much less!
Improving Project Maturity…in Government?
How do you fix a woefully underfunded government organization and implement over 50 significant citizen serving systems in less than …
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Executing Strategy
The global business landscape is littered with expensive, well-intended strategies that don’t deliver value, often because leaders failed to identify …
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