Tag: Project Management

  • Key Challenges in Product Development, Hampering Your Business Agility

    I facilitated a workshop with several product teams today. One of the topics on the Kanban (used as an adaptive agenda) was around the challenges that they’ve experienced, the ones that hinder the product team’s ability to respond quickly to…

  • Agile and Predictability

    A few weeks ago, I wrote about a hybrid of Crystal Clear, DSDM, XP, and Scrum; the most common Agile methodologies, but seeking to improve things for non-software teams. I sat on the train earlier, commuting to the office, looking…

  • Collaboration and programme management, peculiar bedfellows?

    Yesterday I attended a most insightful conference led by the Association of Project Management (APM) – I might be slightly biased, as I helped organise and run the event. This specialist event was uniquely dedicated to programme management and sought…

  • Celebrate the launch of the Handbook of People in Project Management

    People can be the most challenging aspect of projects. They bring diverse perspectives, emotions, motivations, and levels of engagement. Differences in communication styles, resistance to change, conflicting priorities, and varying levels of experience or understanding can lead to misunderstandings, misalignment,…

  • There is method in the madness!

    Projects do not succeed by accident. [Though in my experience some end up being accidents waiting to happenā€¦but that is a topic for another time] Without exception, projects, whether major change programs or an office relocation, have to be sustained…

  • Ready to Embrace AgilePM

    APMG-International the leading examination institute, the very same people that are responsible for accrediting PRINCE2 and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), have now launched (October 2010) the Agile Project Management (AgilePM) certification. Although AgilePMĀ is brought to us by APMG-International; it is the end result…