A few years ago I was first exposed to some agile practices. A year and a half or two years ago I had confrontations with agile practitioners as well as exposure to and involvement with agile projects. I even led some, without having bought in. If you look back at my blog posts, as it [...]
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 artifacts and such [...]
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 those tasks. You can start off [...]
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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). I am not sure that it makes sense. However, if [...]
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 to exchange their designs freely. Nowhere is this better [...]