We recently hired our a developer, after spending a ton of money on a consultant who, like the one mentioned in your film clip, spent all the budget and didn’t come close to completing the work. Lesson learned: ensure the consultant knows what all has to be done, and how you want it done … then ensure that there’s a fixed-price contract that spells out what will be done, and by when. Also identify the “punishment” if not completed on time and within budget.

We recently hired our a developer, after spending a ton of money on a consultant who, like the one mentioned in your film clip, spent all the budget and didn’t come close to completing the work. Lesson learned: ensure the consultant knows what all has to be done, and how you want it done … then ensure that there’s a fixed-price contract that spells out what will be done, and by when. Also identify the “punishment” if not completed on time and within budget.

I love agile (my particular experience is with scrum). In my opinion, if you do agile right, you are doing project management. A LOT of people get agile completely wrong, and unfortunately it sounds like you might be one of them.

I love agile (my particular experience is with scrum). In my opinion, if you do agile right, you are doing project management. A LOT of people get agile completely wrong, and unfortunately it sounds like you might be one of them.

Now I am studying PM, but its only to make me a better member of modern agile self-organizing generalist teams.