The classic model of inputs and outputs (as taught by PMI and just about every other PM school of thought in regard to larger project phases as opposed to a description of the environment of an SDLC) can be extended and simplified to allow for: initial assessment (There are unique and very different...

User Stories are very alluring to a contemporary PM, because the impulse to break them down into requirements is almost unavoidable and provides immediate meat to sink teeth into. In the more Agile-minded PM’s mind, there is the impulse to break User Stoies down into tasks and estimate against...

Okay, behave. Everything is backed up just in case WordPress lets me down again. I am going to launch a new site soon, so the whole Google blacklist fiasco will be a thing of the past. I am even going to store my javascript in external files. The thing is going to be *clean*. All my best, Josh

<iteration 1> The Just-In-Time philosophy minimizes waste. Championed by Toyota, the JIT approach aims to not only optimize process, but simultaneously reveal and strengthen weak links in the chain of process. Polymorphic Process is something I made up just in time to write this (the phrase, anyhow)....

Recently I heard someone I respect say that UML is not used that often in real scientific (I guess he was implying intelligent, though I know some DUMB scientists) efforts. From UML.org’s nice article on Visual Modeling: UML has become the lingua franca of software development, allowing engineers...