Challenges in Implementing Agile
Agile development methodologies put forth a set of guidelines for helping to navigate the complex world of software development.
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Welcome to the blog, where practitioners share project management insights with the community. The blogs are written by volunteers of the SVPM Scrum Team Program and external contributors.
Quality Costs
While Ford announced that “Quality is Job One,” it is Toyota and Honda that continue to build the most reliable
What’s Required of Requirement Management?
Good Requirement Management is perhaps the most important factor in many projects’ successes or failures. Some research had mentioned that
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Creating the Project Office
Participants in the UCSC Extension advanced course on the “Project Management Office” had ample opportunity to explore their environmental challenges,
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Risk? What Risk?
Every program manager has run into the same situation at some point in their career. You put together your program
Getting Teams Unstuck
B. W. Tuckman discovered that teams go through development stages beginning with the forming stage and ending with the adjourning
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The Priority Battles
Have you ever worked for someone who said ALL requirements are high priority ? Yeah ! We all have. Customers often
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Control – the Illusion
Know any control-freaks?
For many of them, control is an illusion. Paradoxically, by grasping for more control, they often get less.
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Politics or influence?
The ability to influence people is a good skill for a project manager. Isn’t it?
Isn’t it our job as PMs to influence people on the project? To find ways to get our stakeholders onboard?
Could it be that one person’s influencing can be another’s political manipulation?
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Teams? Why not just have a meeting?
Teams. It seems like such an obvious part of project life. Or, is it? Recently, I’ve been noticing some things
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Commitment – Inspiration that Never Fails
Inspiration is important, but we can’t depend on it showing up when needed. It comes and goes, like a ferral
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