Yes, it is that time of the year. Well, almost. I want to start early this year with my “Best of 2007″ series… I hope I am the first… my Top 5 Project Management Blogs. The ranking is based upon the 5 blogs I shared or starred the most in my RSS reader. The blogs [...]
What Drives Project People?
Its difficult to really put your finger on the subject of stakeholder interests. It is more a guessing game than a science, so we need to make as much sense of the topic as we can. I conducted a small study on visitors to my website who work on software projects, in an effort to [...]
Dealing With Cultural Differences In Projects
If your project team is spread all over the globe, you will sometimes scare yourself with the amount of prejudice you have when dealing with people from different cultures. I know I do. Humans have a tendency to categorize everything, including people. Stereotyping can be dangerous, because it tries to say something about an entire [...]
Method Components Have a Reason: Scrum
Every element of a project method has a reason. If you know the reason, you know when to apply or use this method component. To explain this, I created a small sample using Scrum, and I turn to some global observations about it. I use the word globalĀ as I will not go into every [...]
Burn-Down Chart Instead of Gantt
Or “Yes, You Can Mix and Match”
Just to reassure you: yes, you can use different techniques together. I will take as an example the usage of burn-down charts as described for Crystal Clear. However, this technique can also be found elsewhere, as in Scrum and Extreme Programming. A burn-down chart is a chart that reflects [...]
