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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And what are the weak points? As I said, PRINCE2 doesn’t cover working with people and as team management and getting the best out of the people is what we all do every day, this seems like a big oversight on the part of PRINCE2, especially as project boards form such a critical part of the standard. Is there something like PMI’s PDUs?

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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Visual Project Management is a process that uses the visualization of the project delivery process to drive team behaviors: to collaborate and effectively manage projects to deliver on time. Rather than look at the project plan, look at what the team is doing. Without clear situational awareness, the team will flounder.

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Risk-aware Product Development (a.k.a. Scrum)

Scrum.org

Over the years I've heard my share of these kinds of statements from various levels of executives: "When my guys run a product development release I really want to know what I will get at the end so I can make business plans accordingly". "In Types of Uncertainty in Product Development. Let's make it clear up front.

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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Why do software teams?—?despite So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”.

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How We Made Our Customer The Product Owner

Scrum.org

From 2010–2015 I worked as a Scrum Master for a web agency. We developed software solutions for external clients. In this article, I’ll share how we addressed this challenge, what experiments we tried, and what insights I gained from the period after 2015. That’s in a nutshell the approach we used within our Scrum team.

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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

Scrum.org

It is located in the neocortex and developed relatively recently. Systems thinking is a language and set of tools meant to illuminate our thinking about how the systems we are all part of actually operate (David Peter Stroh, Systems Thinking for Social Change, 2015). A software development effort is always a system!

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The Best Self-Help Books to Make 2019 Your Best Year Yet

ProjectManager.com

Our team at ProjectManager.com has read thousands of pages so you don’t have to, and have come back with the cream of the crop. She knows a thing or two about how women are considered weak if they’re nice and nasty if they’re not. Everyone can benefit from the development of leadership skills. Buy the book. Drive by Daniel H.

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