Kevin Aguanno, PMP, IPMA-B, MAPM is a certified Executive Project Manager who has written many The other day, I was challenged by a client to provide a description of why they still needed a PM at the end of their project. To understand their question, and my response, you need a bit of background information first.
The "Ideal" Iteration Length Revealed...
As agile project management methods are becoming more widely adopted in companies around the world, many of those companies struggle with one of the most basic decisions when starting iterative incremental project approaches: what is the ideal iteration length to use? Let's see if we can tackle that question.
Getting PM Training without Breaking the Bank
In these troubling economic times, companies are slashing their training budgets as a means of getting costs under control and more in line with dramatically-reduced revenues. Classroom training opportunities are being cancelled every day, with the excuse that tuition, travel costs, and lost productivity makes the whole exercise financially unviable.
Best Practices are Still Best Practices
I do a lot of consulting on the adoption of agile management techniques. What I keep seeing are the same issues popping up time and time again. While lots of good information has been circulating about agile project management for the past decade or so, misperceptions abound.
Ending the Methodology Wars
I was in a meeting the other day when I encountered a bizarre exchange between a project manager and her project sponsor. I followed up after the meeting with both of them individually to try and figure out what was going on behind the scenes. Clearly, such strange reactions indicated some political intrigue was brewing in the back rooms and hallways of the organization.
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