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As if adopting Agile wasn’t scary enough, Keith Richards from KRC talked about the 8 dangers of Agile at the APM conference last month. And here they are: It arrives bottom up “We don’t really want the techies taking over the organisation,” said Keith. “This bottom up stuff is a bit dangerous.” He made the…
In this video I ask Josh Nankivel from pmStudent.com why he has chosen to use Kanban for managing the tasks for his project team. A transcript of this video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Hello! My name is Elizabeth Harrin from the blog “A Girl’s Guide to Project Management” and I’m here today with a fellow…
Agile is: Change friendly Iterative Collaborative Chunked delivery Communications focused Business focused Scope tolerant Quality focused (if you do it correctly!) These were the themes that set the tone for Keith Richards’ presentation at the APM Conference in London last month. “The basics of project management seem to have been thrown away with some Agile,”…
This is a book review of the 2009 edition of the PRINCE2 manual. For more up-to-date content on PRINCE2, check out my guide to PRINCE2 which is fully updated for the 7th edition, 2023 version. The 2009 version of the PRINCE2® manual for project managers feels a lot clearer and structured. Managing Successful Projects with…
Back in 2007, a group of NGO’s met in Baltimore. They realised that their projects were over or under spent and ineffective. “Because we are positive people we saw this as an opportunity,” said John Cropper, Global Programme Co-ordinator for Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme. They wanted to do something “by the sector for the…
Please excuse my amateur video skills! This one didn’t come out as well as I had hoped. The transcript for the video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Well, good morning. I’m here at the National Council for Volunteer Organisations in London just around from King’s Cross. I’m looking at Regent’s Canal. It’s a great location. And…
I attended my first PMI UK Chapter meeting recently and the topic was Lean Six Sigma and Project Management: A Marriage Made in Heaven? I’m not sure what marriage had to do with it, but the presenter, Ishai Perelman, PMP®, Master Black Belt and a senior managing consultant with Pcubed, certainly pointed out the links…
OGC launched guidance last week on managing Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (that’s P3O® for short). It was a low-key launch event at a great venue south of the river, just along from Tate Britain, which looks beautiful lit up at night. Frances Scarff, head of best management practice for OGC did the introductions, including…