Month: May 2010

Agile Project Management, Events, Leadership, Metrics, Planning, Risk Management, Teams

PMBOK v5 – Raise a Little Hell

If you don't like What you got Why don't you change it?If your world is all screwed up Rearrange it The PMI is calling for volunteers to help write and shape PMBOK v5 Guide Link. Here is your chance to inject more recognition and support for agile methods. I was involved in The PMBOK v3 Guide rewrite and got two small changes accepted in 2004 when agile methods and the PMBOK were hardly being talk about and I was a bit of a lone voice at the party.  If you don't like what you see Why don't you fight it If you know there's something wrong Why don't you right it  Since then the tides have changed and now the […]

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Agile Project Management, Planning, Teams

Agile Pendentives

A “Pendentive” is an architectural converter that lets you fit a domed roof on a square base. The pendentive shown in the image on the right is the yellow part.  When working in a traditional project management setting we often need agile pendentives that let us fit agile practices onto a traditional base. Here are some examples: Traditional to Agile1.    WBS –>  Prioritized Backlog. When asked to show the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) sponsors and PMO are likely looking for a breakdown of the project deliverables. Traditional project management approaches recommend creating a WBS early in a project lifecycle after gathering requirements and defining scope. Agile projects acknowledge this upfront design is likely to change and so deliberately go a […]

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