High energy teams are not exclusive to agile. One of the principles of agile approaches that has a strong contribution is time boxing, as everything in agile has a fixed…
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A BS Case is a business case that doesn't have a case
How can a practice that makes so much sense be distorted and abused to the point of losing whatever credibility it had left? The idea of forecasting the benefits and…
The Kamikaze Agile Pilot
Almost every organization that explores the transition from waterfall to agile uses the approach of a pilot project which, in many cases, turns into a “kamikaze” operation, doomed by design.…
The Risk Management Paradox
“The sponsor has lost political power and may no longer be able to support the project”, “Executive X may push for Vendor Y due to family connections”, “The key technical…
The Triple Constraint, probably the only household term in project management, is no longer in PMBOK
Everyone in the project management profession has talked about this concept. The triple constraint is probably the only term that has been exported outside of project management circles. It is…
The Office of Strategy Management: a Response to the Failure of Portfolio Management in Strategy Execution
The recent Pulse of the Profession on Portfolio Management from PMI calls for elevating Portfolio Management to a strategic level. However, the term “execution of strategy” is not even mentioned…