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Question: Which is better, a team with great leader as project manager, or a team of competent leaders? Answer: The results are not even close. Companies like Semco, Toyota, and W. L. Gore & Associates have demonstrated beyond doubt, that while it is great to have an outstanding leader as project manager, it is far better to have an entire team of individuals who are competent leaders. In the book “How People Work: And How You Can Help Them to Give Their Best” Roderic Gray outlines nine ingredients that bring about a successful outcome at work: 1. I know what I am expected to do and why it needs to be done2. I want to do it3. I have the ability to do […]

This is the first of a couple of posts on agile estimation. I would like to thank Boris Mutafelija for submitting the topic request, while there has been much written on agile estimation; it is an area that comes up time and time again. Today I’ll cover the big picture view and upfront estimates. First of all we need to understand that estimating software projects will always be problematic. It does not matter if it will be a traditional project or an agile one, software development projects are unique (we do not repeatedly build the same system) and the evaluation difficulties that make gathering upfront requirements tricky also make scoping and estimating hard too. So approach the problem conscious of […]

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I am a project manager with Quadrus Development Inc. in Calgary Alberta. I moved to Canada, with my wife Samantha, six years ago from England to be close to the Rocky Mountains as we enjoy hiking, mountain biking and snow boarding. We have a 3 month old son “Jake”, who has provided a diversion to our mountain adventures this summer, and is lots of fun. In 1994 I was very fortunate to be involved in the creation of the agile method DSDM and have been using agile methods including FDD, Scrum and XP for the last 12 years. I am a board member of the Agile Alliance and the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN).