SCRUM in Under 10 Minutes
A simply wonderful introduction video to SCRUM by Hamid Shojaee. Very well done indeed! Read more »
Stepping into Emotional Pressure
Courtesy of connectleadership.com, this video does a wonderful job of illustrating a soft skill technique you can use in your daily work to deal with difficult situations. Read more »
Project Change Management
“My boss read in a magazine that developers using ‘___’ programming language are twice as productive, so he bought us a copy and cut our schedule in half.”
Project Change Management: Why developers need a project manager who can also manage change well, and get buy-in from the team before forcing a change on them. Read more »
Help Your People Escape Meeting Hell
“I spend half my days in meeting about how to get more work done (instead of working).”
Next up, this troubled project team member is riddled with meetings that do not seem to add any value, and he feels he could get more work done if people just left him alone. How can a project manager help? Read more »
Requirements Management Please!
Developers everywhere are in terrible pain. Why has it come to this? What can we do to make the world a better place for software developers and their children? This series of posts will address the pain!
The first sad, sad story….. “We’re 4 months in to a 5 month schedule and I just received the final requirements yesterday (and they’ve changed again!)” Read more »
The Many Faces of Your Project
What the heck did we just build? Who wanted this thing anyway?
Get ready for some comic relief. Sit back and chuckle to your heart’s content, you won’t be able to help yourself! Read more »
Theory of Constraints - 4 minute video on What to Change
“Just ask anybody in the organization what to change, and you will find out to what extent people are real experts at bitching and moaning…”
It wasn’t me, it was Goldratt who said it! Wow, I hope I don’t lose my G-rating on this website…. Read more »
Survey Project Teams for Feedback: Video Blog
This is my first video blog, it is a screen capture where I expand on a post I made earlier about using a monthly team barometer to gauge how things are going on your project, and get honest feedback. I show you exactly how to sign up for an account at polldaddy.com and I set up a sample post with 3 targeted questions for your project team. Let me know what you think about this format of post! Read more »
A Classic Cop-Out in Project Management
If it isn’t broken…..make sure you actually know it isn’t broken! This video is just a few minutes, and covers a classic cop-out in project management. Read more »
MS Project is Just a Tool!
“A fool with a tool is still a fool.” In this short video, Brian Price points out that MS Project is NOT all you need to do project management. It reminds me of a colleague of mine, Jay, and his frustration with many people in business who think that an MS Project schedule is equivalent to a Project Plan. Read more »
Selling Project Management to Reluctant Organizations
“Quite often, the business community will see project management as overhead, and as beauracracy.”
Brian Price talks about how to use the WBS as a selling tool in this short video. Check it out! Read more »
Critical Chain Project Management Overview
A 10 minute video today on Critical Chain Project Management. A good introduction! Read more »
Are you a Star Project Manager?
I came across this interesting video presentation today and wanted to share. It’s only about 2 minutes long, and is methodcorp.com’s identification of key milestones on the road to a successful project management career.
I especially like milestone 5, which is the silver lining side of when most fairly experienced project managers start complaining that [...] Read more »
Scrappy Project Management
Kimberly Wiefling is the blog leader for the University of California - Santa Cruz which I write for from time to time. She’s about as witty as they come. Check out this hilarious video and then buy her new book, Scrappy Project Management. Read more »
