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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Schwaber left the Scrum Alliance in 2009 to start a parallel accreditation organization called Scrum.org. It does this by optimizing separate technologies, assets and verticals. Kanban Methodology.

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Book review: How to Manage in a Flat World

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If the human connections are faltering, we need to take it just as seriously – indeed, more so; after all, technology is designed and run by people, too. This article first appeared on this website in 2009, so it’s an old book but still a useful one in many respects. The electronic and human Internets demand equal attention.

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15 Leadership Training Options

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The University of Chicago Booth School of Business developed one of the first experiential leadership programs for full-time students in 1989, and launched its Effective Leadership program in 2009, tailored for evening and weekend Booth MBA students. Best of all, the tutorials are all free. Organizational Leadership and Change, MIT.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. PRINCE2® was released in 1996 and had major updates in 2009 and 2017. You review progress, monitor that against the baseline you set and correct any deviations. It was renamed PRINCE.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The most recent version was released in June 2009, which has split the manual into two, covering project managers and project sponsors. Project managers need to be able to engage stakeholders effectively, and that’s far more part of the job now than the technical skills. I recommend the training courses from Management Plaza.

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Making Things Happen [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. Berkun’s Microsoft background means a lot of the book is aimed towards software development projects, but that’s no bad thing – if you don’t work on software projects just ignore then 10% that is specific to that, like how to plan a code review. It’s all brilliant.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

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This can be the first confusion in its understanding and actual meaning today, for either technical or non-technical folk. Then we have all these practices you hear about residing under this Test First banner - TDD, BDD, and ATDD. Test Driven Development (TDD). But let us leave that for another day. Add a test.