Month: November 2013

Agile Project Management, Planning

Agile Requirements Uncertainty

<I wrote this article first for ProjectManagement.com here as part of their Requirements series> Agile approaches are often used on projects where the end goals are not fully known or may change during the life of the project. This seems unusual to my engineering PM friends who manage the fabrication of facilities. To them, not knowing what it is you are supposed to be building or letting things change along the way is a sign of poor scope definition, requirements gathering, and change control. I hear quips from them along the lines of: “You guys need some rigor and decent specifications, maybe then you could build IT systems that work and don’t go over budget!” They are right of course, […]

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Agile Project Management, Books, Events, PMI-ACP, Travel

Mike Griffiths Receives “PMI-SAC Fellow” Award

On November 12, 2013 Mike was presented with a PMI-SAC Fellow award at the PMI-SAC Awards Gala. The Fellow Award recognizes and honours members who have made sustained and significant contributions to the project management profession and the Institute for more than a decade. Mike was recognized for his work developing agile project management techniques and promoting agile project management including: Co-author “Using DSDM with PRINCE2” white paper 2000 Presenting on “Utilizing Agile Methods alongside the PMBOK Guide” at the PMI Global Congress 2004 Teaching the 2 day course “Agile Project Management” as part of the PMI SeminarsWorld training program 2005-2013 Contributions to the PMBOK Guide v3, v4 and v5 as a core team member 2006-2013 Co-founding the PMI Agile […]

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Agile Project Management, Books, Events, Leadership, Lean, Metrics, Planning, Risk Management, Teams, Travel

Overdue Update and Designing the Pontiac Aztek

I have had a busy autumn and it has been too long since I posted here. I did some consulting in Europe and attended the PMI Global Congress in New Orleans to present on “21st Century Risk Management” with Dennis Stevens. More recently our local PMI Chapter won the “Chapter of the Year” award and held their excellent Professional Development Conference that I gave a couple of presentations at. The first on “PMO Evolution: Frameworks for Integrating Lean, Agile and Traditional Projects” and one on “Surviving Agile Projects” aimed at traditional project managers transitioning to manage their first agile project. The consulting and conference interactions led to a number of ideas for application on agile projects that I will be […]

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