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Scheduling as Premature Elaboration: You’re Doing It Wrong

Thumbnail image for Scheduling as Premature Elaboration: You’re Doing It Wrong by Josh September 16, 2010 Estimation

Scheduling is what project management is all about, right? Among the plethora of project management tools available, what aspect is most widely promoted? Jumping right into MS Project or any other scheduling tool is a mistake. Projects like this are built on very unstable footing, and it’s likely they will fall apart in some way. [...]

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Project Management in Everyday Life

by Josh July 30, 2010 Kanban

I use techniques I learned as a project manager in my everyday life all the time.  Do you? If you are learning to become a project manager, have you started experimenting with these tools and techniques on your own, so that when you do start managing your own projects you will already be familiar with [...]

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New Project Managers: How To Break It Down Into Manageable Parts

by Josh July 1, 2010 Scope

New project managers send me this question a lot, and I think some people struggle with this because they jump right to task definition with a leap directly over figuring out what to deliver first. When you start a new project and need to break down the work into manageable pieces, how do you go [...]

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How to Fix a Broken WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)

by Josh June 22, 2010 Scope

An illustration of how to fix a bad work breakdown structure. This is my WBS Coach course I mention in the video.

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Project Management From a Practical Perspective

by Josh May 13, 2010 Communication

Project Management From a Practical Perspective Let’s start with the basic premise that most of the significant things we do can really be considered a project. Whether that’s building a new house, developing a new set of purchasing procedures, implementing a new computer system etc., (the list is potentially endless) these types of endeavours can [...]

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Chaos and SCRUM

Thumbnail image for Chaos and SCRUM by jkinter February 11, 2010 Agile

Josh asked me to write about some of the challenges and obstacles that we face in our environment. In order to do that I should explain a little about that environment.

Over the past 36 months we have transformed ourselves…

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