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Now that Oprah joined Twitter, it is a serious medium. In Project Management we like “serious”. It sounds wise, professional, the proper thing to do. Now that Oprah is leading the masses towards Twitterland, we need a serious answer to why we should use this medium in our projects. The short answer: Twitter can enable [...]

Or Not Every Single Process Component Is Effective Alone Although I propose picking different techniques and process components from every method that you can lay your hands on, this doesnt mean that you can just pick a single piece from a method and hope it will work.I stress that an issue should be tackled by [...]

Managing Agile Projects is a book edited by Kevin Aguanno, a noted speaker and educator on agile project management. It describes techniques for managing projects in environments where the scope is constantly changing. This book is about techniques common to nearly all of the agile development methods (Extreme Programming, Scrum, Feature Driven Development, DSDM, Lean [...]

If you are interested in agile software development this 40 minute interview from 2004 with Alistair Cockburn is highly recommended. The writer of Chrystal Clear speaks about all the fundamentals and nuances surrounding this topic. To download the mp3, just click on “Download MP3″ on the page you reach by clicking on this link. I [...]

In my quest to analyze project stakeholders I came across some very interesting observations by Alistair Cockburn in his book Agile Software Development. In the first chapters he doesnt discuss agile, but he is describing characteristics of individuals and groups that, in his opinion, lead to why agile is a good method for certain projects. [...]