There was a movement some years ago towards standardizing Federal Sentencing Guidelines. It succeeded and indeed looks about Olympian as the Ten Commandments. The rationale behind this effort had to do with the prejudices that a given environment (Jurisdiction or Circuit) may have towards the people who live within that environment. Minorities were consistently receiving [...]
I have been having a bit of an internal conflict lately. This is a different sort of internal conflict. There is no yelling, there are no strange voices, and there is no heavy sweating while I slump in the corner and mutter to myself. This is an intellectual, professional, theoretical conflict.
I believe in Requirements. I [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]