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Are ‘incremental’, ‘collaborative’ and ‘self-organising’ the sole preserve of Agile?
I keep reading books and articles on Agile that are understandably extolling its virtues over Waterfall, but the good guys out there in the Project Management world had been practising the principles behind Agile long before it arrived on the scene. Incremental The...
Has The Apprentice forever associated the words ‘Project Manager’ and ‘You’re Fired’?
If you watch The Apprentice as religiously as I do, a word association game would have you blurting out ‘You’re Fired’ in response to ‘Project Manager’ and not without justification, because the Project Manager gets fired twice as often as their team members. The...
Why having a Business Case is so important
Find the idea of all that estimating and benefit measurement a bit tiresome? Well, best have a chat to one of the original Channel Tunnel investors who saw their investment decimated and even the promise of free use of the tunnel removed, because their business case...
Poor project disciplines can bring your company down
A number of years ago I worked for a small company at what was then the leading edge of technology. We were developing software and hardware and doing pretty well. We had our eyes on a top end product that was being sold by a competitor for vastly more than our...