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Agile Project Management with Scrum “This,” he said, and held up a copy of Agile Project Management with Scrum. I nodded. This explained Aunt Iva’s fears completely. Leading Virtually This is a new and promising blog about leading virtual teams… I am looking forward to the future postings. Accounting for bugs and rework “How do [...]

This month my Featured Paper at PM World Today is titled “Why do Developers contribute to Open Source?” “Why do developers contribute to free open source software? They are not paid for their effort. However the products produced have a remarkable quality. It would be instructive to see, what happens if we leave money out [...]

Jeffrey Stamps and Jessica Lipnack over at Endless Knots have put a draft version of their chapter “The Virtual, Networked Organization” for us all to download. This will be the final chapter of the book “The Handbook of High-Performance Virtual Teams” that will be released in 2008. I don’t know how long they will keep [...]

The management topic that keeps my brain busy this year is “dealing with different cultures in projects“. Recently I read an interesting discussion about the differences between doing Project Management in Western countries and India and China. One of the participants in the discussion geared my attention towards the work of Geert Hofstede (who is [...]