Although many successful project management practitioners are “accidental project managers,” successful projects should not be “accidental.” Research studies have identified reasons for project failure, as well as the top 10 reasons for project success. By capitalizing on the major contributors …
Without a meaningful definition of quality, how does the business know the project team has achieved their desired quality milestones? The Project Management Institute (PMI) distinguishes between quality and grade (PMI, 2008, p. 190), and that distinction can help answer …
The 2015 Pulse of the Profession® in-depth report Capturing the Value of Project Management Through Organizational Agility, recently released by Project Management Institute (PMI), reveals how organizations can create a culture of agility that enables projects and programs to be completed …
Agile Principles and PMBOK® Guide In this article, principles of the Agile movement are reviewed with an emphasis on their relationship with the PMBOK® Guide. Very good mapping of Agile to PMBOK® Guide practices were suggested by Sliger (2006). The comparison of Agile with traditional project management was …
While organizations might find it easier to first address the processes and tools they will use when they’re delivering agile projects, it is individuals and their interactions that ultimately determine the level of enduring agile success an organization is able …
Frustrated by a cheap crystal ball? Nostradamus not returning your calls? Rethinking how you commit to project deliverables may bring the relief you seek. We expect the TV weather crew to accurately predict only 7 days ahead, but they rarely …
In software development, there is family of “iterative development” methodologies, including Agile, RAD, Lean, Extreme Programming, and others, all designed to adapt quickly to a changing business environment. They measure progress on the rapid and frequent delivery of working software. …
From the industrial age until now, the nature of the work being performed in modern societies has totally changed in nature. Unfortunately and far too pervasively, work’s estimators have not adapted. In this paper, we aim to make project teams …
A second and critical coping mechanism is to look at the relative sizes of the work pieces rather than the time required. To illustrate, in our classes we try the following experiment. we ask for a volunteer to guess the …
The modern concept of agility is based on the empirical process control model of “inspect and adapt.” In contrast, more defined, less creative, and less dynamic processes are suited to the “coordination and control” style appropriate for construction and manufacturing. …