Project Mgmt.

Lean Software Development

While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver...

0 replies - 5770 views - 08/26/08 by Jay Fields in News

Jira MultiSite: Clustered Issue Tracking for Your Distributed Enterprise

With over 8000 customers, JIRA from Atlassian has quickly become the leading issue tracking and project management application of choice. But IT organizations...

0 replies - 3158 views - 08/10/08 by Matthew Schmidt in Videos

The Undercover Adventure (Part 3): Sometimes it’s like trying to appreciate the “squareness” of a peg with round thinking.

When I initially started at the mine around 3 months ago I never anticipated that this industry would have as many acronyms as the IT industry. I was wrong. My...

2 replies - 2428 views - 07/29/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

The Undercover Adventure (Part 2): I want to know what you mean. What you meant. What you will mean. Everytime.

I am a really strong believer in validating assumptions and clearly communicating your decisions with your team before you choose to take a path in front of...

6 replies - 2669 views - 07/21/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

The Undercover Adventure (Part 1): Being a user is hard!

After 3 years of being part of an open source software development team (amongst other things) I decided to do something unusual. I decided it was time to...

10 replies - 3256 views - 07/15/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility

"When software development teams move to agile methods, experienced project managers often struggle-doubtful about the new approach and uncertain about...

0 replies - 2096 views - 07/10/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles

10 Principles of Agile Project Management

Project Time Management is one of the nine knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). It deals with the definition of activities...

0 replies - 1480 views - 06/25/08 by jurgenappelo in News

Agile adoption: Why isn't this stuff working?

Lately I've been hearing feedback from lots of different people that they've "adopted" agile and it's just not working for them. This always causes...

0 replies - 1194 views - 05/28/08 by Chris Spagnuolo in News

Agile Project Management

For agile project management, agile development methodologies, such as Scrum and eXtreme Programming, alone are not enough.Scrum is excellent for managing a...

0 replies - 916 views - 05/09/08 by Kelly Waters in News