Month: February 2012

Agile Project Management, Books, Estimating, Events, Planning, PMI-ACP

PMI-ACP Book Coverage

I finished my PMI-ACP Exam Preparation book a couple of weeks ago and now it is with the publishers for reviews and final edits. It turned out larger than expected, but I think better for the extra exercises and sample exam questions. When designing the PMI-ACPSM exam, we needed to base the content outline on existing books and resources so that candidates would understand what the exam would test them on. When choosing the books, we went back and forth on our decisions of which books to include, since there are so many good resources available. And while we recommend that people learn as much as they can, we also had to recognize the need for keeping the exam content—and […]

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PMBOK v5 Guide Exposure Draft Out for Review

  The PMBOK v5 Guide Exposure Draft opens for public review today – so you can now read it and submit your recommendations for changes. The Exposure Draft is the first open access version to the latest version of the PMBOK Guide which is due to be published at the end of the year. This also marks the first time people writing can publicly talk about it ( or at least I am guessing so since if it available to members now the content is hardly a secret anymore) PMI members can view the Exposure Draft here ed.pmi.org and scan Append X1 for a summary of changes. The major changes are: Bringing the PMBOK Guide inline with a number of […]

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Agile Project Management, Planning

Timebox Alternatives

By Mike Griffiths The Mayans may have had the first timeboxed project. They had a strict 2012 timebox cut off with little room for extension since the world would no longer exist. Although agile methods have been preaching the benefits of fixed timeboxed schedules since their creation, it still raises concerns with many stakeholders. The triangles diagram from DSDM created in 1994 shows the shift from fixed Functionality (vary resources and time) to fixed time and cost (vary functionality).   So, instead of fixing functionality (scope) via the signoff of a specification document and completing all of this functionality (hopefully within the time and budget specified), instead the resources and time are fixed and as much of the functionality as […]

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