Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:17:09 GMT https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blogs/263980/agility-and-project-leadership A contrarian and provocative blog that goes beyond the traditional over-hyped dogma of "Agile", so as to obtain true agility and project leadership through a process of philosophical reflection. https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/26474/has-scrum-outlived-its-usefulness--should-scrum-just-go-away- Thu, 09 Feb 2017 02:10:03 GMT It has been some time since I've posted on this blog as I've taken a break from PM social media and am transitioning and pivoting to a new career direction (what I refer to as an "A.P.E.E." - see my profile for an explanation).  After taking some time off and looking at "... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/11714/the-rise-of-agile-s-safe-is-like-a-bad-episode-of-the-movie-groundhog-day Sun, 01 Feb 2015 02:15:02 GMT There was this great movie back in the early 90’s staring Bill Murray who plays a weatherman covering the annual Groundhog Day event (which is an odd tradition in the US wherein the emergence of a groundhog supposedly predicts when spring arrives early or not).  He gets stuck in a sn... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/11453/marcel-proust-s-recursive-novel--why-the-concept-of-iteration-in-agile-is-shortsighted Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:51:36 GMT Since many readers of this site come from an IT background, it is probably safe to assume that many graduated with a computer science degree and/or taken computer programming classes.  One big topic in that field is how to loop through a sequence of data points continuously that either terminat... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/11394/forecast-for-2015--the-beginning-of-the-end-of-agile- Wed, 31 Dec 2014 20:13:40 GMT My forecast for 2015 is that Agile, or rather the term “Agile” as we all know it, starts to fade away.  The reason isn’t so much that it has not met up to its promises, but rather that it becomes redundant to add a moniker to a term that should already lie at the heart of how ... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/11267/google-considered-the-best-us-company-to-work-for-due-to-hr-agility Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:31:22 GMT Glassdoor.com has just released its report on the 50 best places to work in the US (and pretty much abroad since most companies these days are global) and not surprisingly, Google came out on top.  It sound from the report that this is due to all the perks employees receive, but what was pretty... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/11175/the-oversimplification-problem-of-agile Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:55:45 GMT There’s no doubt that Agile has been beneficial to the development of software and industries beyond, but one thing I have noticed is that people who get deep into it can have a tendency to oversimplify both the problem and the solution to which they are looking to apply Agile.  Just look... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/11140/continuous-dysfunction--when-agile-s-obsession-with-being-done-becomes-toxic-- Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:28:15 GMT The second doctrine of Agile is having “working software over comprehensive documentation” which drives much of the obsession with being “done” in the Agile community.  In other words, the whole reason for doing Agile is so that you have something workable at the end of ... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/11105/it-s-the-product-owner--stupid- Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:45:08 GMT Similar to the 1992 US presidential race where Bill Clinton successfully defeated George H.W. Bush by creating the catchy slogan (“It’s the economy, stupid!”) to focus back on the economy, one could hold a similar sentiment with Scrum in that the majority of the focus is on the Scr... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/11035/is-walmart-going-agile---not-really- Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:48:48 GMT In this Wall Street Journal article, it points out the latest initiative of the retail behemoth Walmart in their attempt at being more “Agile”.  Agile that is in the traditional sense of applying this to their giant IT division for software development that is spread over 130 &ldquo... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/10960/are-pmi-acp-credentialed-project-managers-really-the-highest-paid- Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:25:15 GMT According to a study by Edureka and Global Knowledge, PMs with the PMI-ACP are making on average $123,000 USD which is about 15% higher than those with a PMP and 28% higher than those without any PM certifications.       Of course, the sample size is pretty sm...