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Going Agile

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Many organizations try to catapult into agility.  Striving to instantaneously transform their traditional practices and culture.   Unfortunately, this strategy is usually painful and often fails.The Scrum Guide states, “Scrum is easy to understand, b...

Oct 8, 2019

10 People to follow on LinkedIn & Planning Planet

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LinkedIn and Planning Planet are two of my favourite websites and here is a list of 10 people I follow on LinkedIn or look out for their posts on Planning Planet. Reading from these people always makes my day.  Image Credit: ijmaki While LinkedIn is ...

Feb 19, 2020

Agile Project Governance: It Should be Easy

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Many organizations struggle with project governance, oversight, and control.  The truth is that most projects are not successful.   Over the past 25-years, only 30% of all projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and with the desired scope.  Tradit...

Mar 3, 2020

Agile Project Governance: It Should be Easy

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Many organizations struggle with project governance, oversight, and control.  The truth is that most projects are not successful.   Over the past 25-years, only 30% of all projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and with the desired scope.  Tradit...

Mar 3, 2020

Leadership in the Time of Coronavirus

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The coronavirus pandemic is the most frightening, disruptive, and widespread crisis of our lifetime.  As managers and leaders, none of us have faced challenges of such a magnitude or scale.  Over the next several weeks and probably months, our teams ...

Mar 28, 2020

Is Your Agile Project Healthy?

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Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scr...

Aug 4, 2019

Making Complex Decision

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“…when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”  Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and SlowIn the midst of the pandemic, we have and will continue to face numerous complex decis...

Jul 1, 2020

Create Value: Map the Value Stream

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“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.” W. Edwards DemingOur work and home lives our bounded by standard operating procedures and process—and too many of them stink.  We all have encountered Byzantin...

Jul 30, 2020

Confidentiality of Project Data When Shared in XER File Format

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Clearly defined tasks and responsibilities must be given to all project participants, in order to ensure the successful completion of the project.Even more so when a project counts a large number of participants, which makes it more demanding and dif...

Jun 12, 2019

Disciplined Agile & SAFe

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Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies.  They build on lean-agile thinking; and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They offer practitioners tools to extend and ...

Dec 1, 2022

Taylorism: Then & Now

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Frederick Winslow Taylor shaped the field of management science.  He believed systematic and scientific methods could be applied to managing operations and production.  His work inspired the formation of the Harvard Business School and the modern ass...

Jan 3, 2023

Unlock the Power of the Project Management Plan

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The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool.  It describes how the project will be executed. It should be tailored based on the project’s context and needs.  A good Plan reduces the likelihood of misunderstanding, conflict, and disappointme...

Jan 26, 2023

Project Tools: Which to Choose?

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There are many tools to help project teams manage their work, collaborate, and track performance.  The number of options is overwhelming—Capterra has published over 900-project management tool reviews. I teach project management classes and am often ...

Feb 28, 2021

Show Calendar Days instead of Dates in MS Project Schedule columns

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Sometimes during tender or bid submission for a project, the client might not provide a Project start date and bidders would be required to show ordinal dates in the Gantt chart timeline and calendar days in the start and finish dates columns, so tha...

Mar 9, 2021