Good Product Management Matters!
As a consulting CTO, I’m on the lookout for the knots in clients’ software development; untangling them has been the …
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Agile: Not a Magic Pill
No one on software teams believes in waterfall any longer. That’s what The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance revealed. …
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Onboarding: Critical Success Factor (and mostly overlooked!)
It wasn’t a surprise to me to find, for two years in a row, that our Study of Product Team …
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I think I Nailed It – Commercial World Wants the BA – CHEAP!
Oh yeah, more anecdotal data tells me silicon valley wants SO MUCH MORE for so much less!
Starting with the end in mind — lessons from the streets
How many times have we been brought in to rescue a project, and we find out that the engineers had …
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Knowing Is Not Enough
Here’s one of those really good (and at the same time really irritating) questions to ask yourself – why is …
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DNDTA
A friend of mine once told me about a technique for keeping track of lessons learned. She keeps a file …
PROJECT MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES TO AVOID CAREER LIMITING MOVES – PART 3
PROJECT MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES TO AVOID CAREER LIMITING MOVES – PART 3 of 3 Jeff Schlageter President, Project Acceleration [email protected] …
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Whoops! We Forgot About the Customer!
More than 50% of all new products fail to meet their goals because they fail to meet the needs of …
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How to Kill a Project
It seems to me that too many High Tech companies have become so bureaucratic that the processes and meetings and …
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Rescuing a Late Project – What Will You Do?
Do you recognize that your current project is late, but you haven’t taken steps necessary to rescue it, except for …
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Embracing Failure
I believe we need to rethink our views about failure. Truly, the only failure is if we fail to learn …
Let’s Not Talk About the Vampire in the Living Room
Some parts of a project are just: slam dunk. They’re straightforward, sweet, smooth and easy. Everybody knows what to do, …
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Project Management Dangerous to Mammals
I haven’t quite put my finger on it, but something I’ve noticed about the human condition that retards our ability …
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