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Better Projects

“ Notes and discussions on Project Management and Business Analysis ”
Homepage: http://www.betterprojects.net/
First Indexed: 2009-10-09 07:17:50
Last updated: 2010-09-05 00:00:19
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Pernicious Relativism And Logical Positivism

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We say that Project Management is about getting things done, which means that at the end of the day pragmatism beats all methodologies and theoretical models.Just what is pragmatism? And why does this approach to work bring so many of us in...(more)
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Managing Expectations

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Success, at least the ephemeral success of a happy customer, is achieved through exceeding expectations. Set low expectations and it’s easy to succeed. Set high expectations, and even though you do an awesome job, nobody is really that ...(more)
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Cots Selection Resolved (you Make The Call)

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In an earlier post we presented you with a situation about a COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) software package selection process. Here are some things that could have made this process better.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.pr...(more)
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Project Phoenix, Something I Must Share

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The first project with which I was ever involved which actually made it into production, was entitled Project Phoenix. This was at least the third try at filling this niche within my then employer, and there were probably many more aborted ...(more)
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Erasing Your Project Identity

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Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, recently commented that at some point in the future, people may need a ’reset button’ on their identity. The basic idea he had was that when we are young, we engage in activities that we may not want...(more)
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Mentions: failure    PM Jobs    technology   

Cots Selection (you Make The Call)

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Indexed  August 27, 2010
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Its time for yet another installment of our favorite game here at BetterProjects.net, You Make The Call! The rules are simple... we’ll present a situation that is based on a real life project with which we have been involved. If you t...(more)
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Mentions: Integration Management    technology   

Thinking With Hats

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I have seen every brainstorming and idea generation method under the sun... or at least that’s what I had thought until a meeting with my company’s R&D team a few weeks back. The subject of the meeting itself isn’t imp...(more)
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Lisa Crispin’s Test Quadrants

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Indexed  August 23, 2010
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On Wednesday’s our team checks into a meeting room and holds a tech talk.  Recently we have been watching videos from the NDC.Lisa Crispin presented a video on testing approaches and put up a slide (p19) with a four box quadrant to h...(more)
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Reviewing Project Team Members, Part 2

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Indexed  August 19, 2010
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In the first part of this series, I focused on things people managers can do to improve the review process for employees who spend most of their time working on projects. This second part will focus on getting down to writing the review and...(more)
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Reviewing Project Team Members, Part 1

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Probably the worst review I have ever received started off by my boss of 18 months saying, “Wow, if I had known you were doing this caliber of work all this time, I would have given you a much higher score.” Its no wonder why I was alre...(more)
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Mentions: scope    PM Templates   

Beer And Unit Tests On The Central Coast

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Indexed  August 17, 2010
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Published with Blogger-droid v1.4.9...(more)
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Event Zero Successful

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The first Central.Coat IT nerds event wa.tonigjt and it turned out pretty well. While we didn’t have 400 people.bearing down the doors we did get to discuss how we grow this idea into a sustainable community. For example we will fo...(more)
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Coast Meetup Tonight

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Hey everyone, see you tonight at Jack’s.Published with Blogger-droid v1.4.9...(more)
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Efficient Project Markets

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Back in college, I was a finance major. Despite having never once used all those hours of studying and research as a part of my career, the concepts themselves stuck with me all the years since graduation. One concept in particular, the Eff...(more)
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Document Best If Implemented By The Date On The Cover

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Indexed  August 12, 2010
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There is a great scene in the movie ’Clerks’ where a woman is going through every single gallon jug of milk in the store, checking to see if which one has the expiration date that is the furthest out into the future. The clerks ...(more)
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Scrum 18 Months On

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Indexed  August 10, 2010
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I have been with my current team for just over 2 years.  I was hired to bring in a troubled project using agile techniques (likely scrum.) We started out together in state where we weren’t really ready to switch across fully, but...(more)
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Project Misconceptions

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Indexed  August 9, 2010
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We’ve all had that stakeholder or that developer or that analyst who had a single viewpoint on what they saw as the truth of a problem. No matter how much data you showed them, no matter how many better informed people contradicted th...(more)
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Just Because Your Project Isn’t On The Strategic Plan Doesn̵>

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Indexed  August 7, 2010
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You may have to search for the link though.The idea: not all opportunities are recognised up front. Much of what the enterprise does is keep up with the Joneses. Occasionally through the housekeeping projects new capabilities and opportunit...(more)
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Is The Future In Insourcing?

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Indexed  August 6, 2010
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Don Dodge is awesome. This guy really gets me to thinking. An article he posted to his blog today sparked a thought about what it might take for the ’western world’ to bring back jobs that those of us who spend our time working ...(more)
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Better Projects Now Smartphone Enabled.

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Indexed  August 5, 2010
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Thanks to Ray Claridge’s Tester Troubles blog I knew there was a simple and easy way to present Better Projects.net in a smartphone browser.Less than 5 minutes and it’s now enabled.  Test me out.  O...(more)
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