Blog of a Boston-based IT Consultant

PMI has a term for it:
Progressive Elaboration
MSF, Martin Fowler (this guy is amazing), and XP have a term for it:
Continuous Integration

George has a term for it:

Iterative Refinement

It reduces Risk!
It prevents Scope Creep!
It keeps your application fresh!
It is a license to toss BUF requirements!
It makes User Stories a viable alternative to Use Cases!

It obviates the antiquity [...]

Being a PM can be like being a General Contractor. Obviously, there is a very direct relationship. I know this is not going to win a Pulitzer. General Contractors have PMs. Still, there is another shade of metaphor here and I am going for with this impromptu post. See below, and know that there are [...]

I love this stuff.
Codeplex.
Microsoft encouraging Open Source… and it isn’t just lip service.
I can’t believe I like these guys now… but I do.
Josh

PMP/PMI has has turned into one of those things that HR people put on the job description just because they assume it is a de facto standard. It is not. In fact, of all the PMs I have worked with, none of the top 5 are PMPs. Quite a few of the bottom 5, however, [...]

This article has been born from a trend that I have seen gain traction over the past few years. People are building requirements matrices of sorts, and they are coming with MoCSoW associations. I think there is a disconnect, and I want to address it.
A requirement is something that is required. The term ‘requirements‘ has [...]