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Successful Projects: It’s Not Rocket Science

by Duncan Haughey October 30, 2008 Misc

There is often a misconception that managing an IT project is difficult. Avoiding the common pitfalls of IT project management is not rocket science, it is simply a case of taking some sensible measures. This article identifies 5 killer mistakes of project management and their solutions.

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Requirements Management Please!

by Josh September 28, 2008 Requirements

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!)”

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Reverse-Engineering Requirements?

by Josh August 13, 2008 Requirements

Fellow blogger Craig Brown over at Better Projects asked “Why reverse engineer requirements?” in a recent post.

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Lessons Learned from Anita Wotiz

by Josh July 13, 2008 Misc

Anita Wotiz is the guest blogger this week over at the UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Project Management blog. She published great post titled “An unrepeatable success?” Read it here. It was great to hear about the project, specifically the lessons learned and trying to relate them to my own experience. I wouldn’t write the [...]

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Moving Beyond the Triple Constraints

by Josh June 4, 2008 Misc

Dave Garrett recently wrote on the concepts expressed by Aaron Shanhar in his book, Reinventing Project Management. The gist is that the common triple-constraint model of managing cost, schedule, and scope is not enough. As I like to put it and in Goldratt’s words, necessary but not sufficient. I have not yet read Shanhar’s book, [...]

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Valuing Time as a Business Resource – Interview with Curt Finch

by Josh February 6, 2008 Books

I recently read a new book by Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx, Inc. titled “All Your Money Won’t Another Minute Buy – Valuing Time as a Business Resource.” I have always been a student of time management, so I was delighted with the opportunity to interview Curt about the book. Please enjoy the interview.

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