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During the PMI Arizona Chapter Reach The Peak symposium last April Dave Prior had the pleasure of talking to Johanna Rothman, author of Manage It!, Manage Your Project Portfolio and Behind Closed Doors. They talk about agility and programs, making transition to agile. Other people who liked this article liked these tooWhy Project Potion?I had [...]

This is a difficult one. I seem to have two conflicting opinions. Yesterday Derek Huether explained in a great post how he relates agile approaches in terms of the PMBOK to get acceptance from stakeholders: “I would propose that you make sure you can communicate with stakeholders in a language they understand. If you start [...]

This is a guest post by Trapper Markelz. For more information about Trapper, see the end of this post. The road to a successful project is littered with over-promised, over-time, over-budget, and under-delivered products. We have all been on these projects, and it is because of them that all of us are seeking new methods [...]

Different circumstances require different project approaches. Sometimes we need a piece of plan-driven, other times we need a bucket of agile. But we are always in need of Project Leaders that know how to handle all available project strategies. That is way I am very excited about the recently founded PMI Agile Community of Practice. [...]

How do you convince an organization to use Scrum or another agile practice and really adopt it? I asked this question to three Project Managers experienced with agile practices and traditional approaches.

Last week I got an email asking if I am an Agilist.
Scuze me? I am Dutch. Does that count?
Of course I know about agile approaches. Yes, I know Scrum. Yes, I know the devastating effects a single minded, too narrow focused, command-and-control fanatic can have on the workplace.

Just came back from the first day at the PMI EMEA Congress here in Amsterdam. Love it! Met some great people like Dave Prior, the author of the Drunken PM blog and the ITT SIG Podcast, and a big agile fan. Great day for him. On this first day of the conference a lot of [...]

In this episode of The Project Shrink Podcast I am talking to David Webb of Exigen Services. We are talking about flex-agility: their outsourced, fixed price, agile-based application development offering. Earlier this year I talked to Alec Miloslavsky, CEO of Exigen Services, and I got a lot of feedback on this topic. Your feedback let [...]

** This is a guest post by John P Vajda, PMP. Find out more about John at the bottom. ** How does one become more Agile? The question beckons any project manager worth his/her weight in PMP training books. We all ask ourselves how we can better deal with uncertainty. How can we embrace the [...]

On his blog Noop.nl, Jurgen Appelo is making a strong case for adapting your software development approach according to the circumstances. He recently wondered why being agile is not about being adaptable and doing whatever it takes to make your project a long-lasting success any more. Jurgen introduced Scrum into his organization. He didn’t follow [...]