Musings on project management

We're always looking for some agile statistics to see how things are going. Here's some decent stuff from Scott Ambler, an agile th...

A common sequence studied by change managers -- particularly business change managers -- is the so-called growth-maturity-decline triad. ...

I've given many presentations in Europe and Asia -- successful I always thought -- but I probably missed the lessons learned as I read ...

"Figure of Merit".... everybody got this, or should I say more? Some say FoM, of course. Definition A figure-of-merit is a m...

Can you work this problem? You've got something big to do -- a project or task -- and it has risk and uncertainty. Some of the estima...

When you get into risk management a bit, there are some biggies that get thrown around -- I call them $10 words -- and there are two that m...

Vanity Metrics: Actually, until recently, I had not heard of vanity metrics, aka VM. Now, I am writing about them! Does that make me a VM ...