Agile

Three Ways to Stand Out as a Project Manager in Today’s Economy

by Erika Flora October 21, 2009 Career

Guest post by Erika Flora With the current economic conditions, an increasing number of people are either afraid of losing their jobs or desperately searching for work. Just like it’s a buyer’s market for housing, it also seems to be a buyer’s market for employers. Those who are hiring can be extremely selective in whom [...]

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Scrum Revisited: Video Edition

by Josh September 11, 2009 Agile

I’ve been crazy again about Scrum recently and wanted to share these great videos with you. All are entertaining and relatively short, and good for Scrum newbies. Enjoy! Scrum Basics This is one of the best “intro to Scrum” video I’ve ever seen! The first minute is a little slow, but it gets better after [...]

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Software project methodologies

by craigwbrown February 9, 2009 Other

Software Project Methods View more presentations from Craig Brown. (tags: pmi pmbok) photo by alq666

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Irrational Loss Aversion

by Brian Bozzuto November 10, 2008 Books

Recent events allowed me to catch up on some reading and I found myself going through “Sway – The Irreresitable Pull of Irrational Behavior” by Ori and Rom Brafman. The book is a generally enjoyable light read, but it delved into one topic I found very fascinating: irrational loss aversion.

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Making status meetings fun is possible – yes, I promise!

by Karine Simard November 5, 2008 Communication

Regular status meetings are boring: everyone goes around the table and rehashes what they did in the last week or month. No one really cares. If the project dates are slipping, the team wants the meeting to be over with so they can get back to doing something useful.

But status meetings can be fun!

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Agile & Waterfall Background

by Kurt.Simon October 31, 2008 Agile

I am a Lead Systems Engineer on a very large multi-year project to deploy image processing software for a satellite ground system, and would like to share some experience and lessons learned in trying to manage a project using agile and waterfall software development in harmony.

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