requirements

Your Customers Don’t Care

by Josh

Your Customers Don't Care

I was in a local cafe the other day working on a Kanban training course I’ll be making available sometime soon.

I grabbed the usual coffee for fuel and then a sugar avalanche of a toffee bar caught my eye. And I bought it. Because I have no impulse control whatsoever.

I chewed the first wonderful bite, eyes closed, prepared for the caloric coma. [click to continue…]

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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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Requirements Gathering? Elicitation? No…

by George Bridges, PMP March 16, 2010 Requirements

Gathering Requirements: That it implies that you already know the solution to the problem. By collecting information, we determine the “real” problem(s).

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Performance Based EVM

by Travis K. Anderson, MBA, PMP January 22, 2010 Training

Many of us have experienced frustrations with obtaining useful program performance data. It is not always an easy process of maturing project management and earned value management best practices…

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What Are Requirements?

by Josh July 8, 2009 Definitions

Requirements are descriptions of the end-result of your project. They are a way to gain consensus on exactly what it should do, and impose some constraints as well.

Good requirements DO NOT impose a particular solution unless there is a valid business reason. Let me explain.

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Are you eligible to appear in the PMP exam?

by Raja November 23, 2008 PMP

So, you have been hearing of the advantages of being a PMP and have finally decided to appear in the exam!

Great! Before you get set to prepare for this exam, you need to spend a moment verifying whether you are eligible to appear in it. Through this article, I will help you do exactly this.

So, what is it that you need to be eligible?

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