Musings on project management

Nothing really good happens at a milestone because too many things have to come together to have success.   At a milestone, seemingly indepe...

Somebody asked me the other day for my definition of agile--I think they heard about my new book coming in January, "Project management...

Do you love statistics? Probably not! Nevertheless, they are present in every project and so a few minutes to grasp the top five ideas is ...

There's no time like the present--Benefit tracking begins with the first release. Adoption may be slow. Because of the natural relucta...

There's a common misperception that agile and earned value don't mix: that earned value is too heavy and anti-agle.  Not so! Agile p...

W. Edwards Deming and the PDCA cycle Deming--working in Japan and else where in the mid-20th century--introduced very practical ideas of p...

New to the agile scene? Curious about XP -- Extreme Programming? One practice born in XP and now widely dispersed in the agile community is ...