In Defence of Project Managers
I’ve been a bit hard criticising project managers—or project management as a discipline—especially harping on the fact that 70 to 80 per cent of project-managed projects fail—the larger the project,
Category: Agile
Agile? Say No to Project Managers
Apologies in advance for dogpiling on Anthony Mercino’s work at Vitality Chicago. Anthony has been riffing on the latest report on the state of project management by the Standish Group,
Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile
According to the Standish Chaos report, 13% of Waterfall software development projects succeed. This compares with 42% of Agile projects. It’s no wonder so many people want to jump on
Agile Doesn’t Use Critical Path
So this happened. Recently, I was working with a system integration consultancy, not surprisingly, on a system integration project. The SI decided to adopt a Wagile approach, where Waterfall and
Agile Short: Customer Satisfaction
In this series, I am going to share my perspective on each of the 12 principles underlying Agile. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous
Agile is not a project management framework
Spoiler Alert: Agile is a software product management framework. Many companies read about the benefits of Agile software development and want to employ it as a project management methodology. Somehow,
MVP or not MVP?
I recently produced a segment related to MVP, Minimum Viable Product. Whilst researching the subject matter, I found there were detractors to the concept. I feel this is a worthwhile
Minimum. Viable. Product.
I’m working through some Coursera content on Product Management by Alex Cowan, and I have some fundamental differences of opinion. In this segment, I share my perspective on what makes
Agile. Scale.
I hate to be the one to break the news, and please don’t shoot the messenger. Complex and geometric relationships don’t scale well. Agile is no exception. As with economies
Smart. User. Story.
In the early days of Agile, Bill Wake published guidelines for writing good user stories. He created an INVEST acronym and promoted SMART for creating goals. This is what I