Musings on project management

Barry Boehm on the CRACK Customer Dr. Barry Boehm, a noted software methodologist with a long and illustrative career at TRW, DARPA, and U...

I enjoy a bit of wit and humor. Here are a few of my favorite quotes: Instead of trying to make the trains run on time, it might b...

Somebody asked: can a virtual team do Agile? Of course, with some adjustments. Here are my thoughts on this. The communications channel: ...

I was asked recently in a way that begged for an 'elevator speech' reply: "How do you manage cost?" My goodness! How muc...

The ideas of F.W. Taylor How many project managers are still laboring with the aftermath of Fredrick Winslow Taylor, more popularly known...

Governance and agile methods may seem like an oxymoron. But not so. A means to govern is essential for orderly project functioning. With...

Thinking about the unreasonable problems I've been thinking about some unreasonable problems. Some call them 'wicked'. The w...