Month: October 2010

Agile Project Management, Leadership, Metrics

Ultra Agile

Agile methods are best suited for small projects. Women are not suited for extreme endurance events like marathons and ultra (beyond marathon) races. Oh, how conventional wisdom seems ludicrous after being proven wrong time and time again. “The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.” – Helen Keller I have been doing more trail running this year, and some ultras. It is great to see the sport is not male dominated and many events are won outright by women. Before the 1980s, there were no women's distance races in the Olympics at all; 1,500m was the furthest race distance allowed for them. Before 1972, women were barred from the Boston marathon and most other marathons. Pam Reed […]

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PMI Global Congress

I will be at the PMI Global Congress in Washington D.C. next week presenting on “Reoccurring Resistance to Agile Adoption and Lessons Learned” for successful implementation. Later in the week I will be teaching my SeminarsWorld 2 day Agile Project Management Class. I am looking forward to the conference, it will be an opportunity to reconnect with members of the PMI Agile Community and attend sessions from the Agile Track. With all this PMI stuff I have reported recently, you could be forgiven for thinking I have crossed over to the dark-side, but this is not the case – it is just where the action seems to be at the moment.This last week I also presented at the Agile Tour […]

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PMBOK v5

Q: How do you write a new version of the PMBOK Guide? A: Very carefully Development of the PMBOK v5 Guide is underway and I was on the content creation group for Chapter 12 Procurement as explained previously. However, I was transferred onto the group for Chapter 6 Time Management. Apparently, I am a last minute swap to bring an agile perspective to Time Management. All I know is I am very grateful to be there and will likely learn a lot. I am bound by NDAs to not reveal any content, but Chapter 6 is interesting since the current PMBOK v4 edition contains the processes of: 6.1 Define Activities6.2 Sequence Activities6.3 Estimate Activity resources6.4 Estimate Activity Durations6.5 Develop Schedule6.6 […]

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