Project Management as the Ultimate Calling

February 12, 2010

A couple weeks ago, the PMI Washington DC hosted a webinar by Agile practitioner Joe Luttrell. The talk was call “Project Management: The Ultimate Calling?”, and it blew me away. You can download the slides, but they don’t convey the full essence of his story.
What’s Happened Before
Take a look at these facts:
Granted, I [...]

Read the full article →

Scrum Certification for South Florida PMs

February 12, 2010

To those of you in the sunshine state, I will be teaching a Certified ScrumMaster class next month on behalf of the PMI South Florida Chapter.

I’m particularly excited about this session, because we’ll be tailoring the material specifically for every day project managers who have been trained in PMI circles. So, we’ll be covering [...]

Read the full article →

It’s Official. Agile Project Managers Earn More Money

January 20, 2010

Agile tool vendor, Version One released its “first annual Agile Salary survey” today on its website [PDF download]. The survey yielded some interesting results, that are worth mentioning here.

According to the survey, those North Americans aggressively using Agile techniques earn a premium of a 2.5% to 2.8% annually. The survey declines to speculate why this [...]

Read the full article →

“If you consistently deliver garbage, then all you have is a repeatable process”

January 18, 2010

That was a quote from Sanjiv Augustine, who presented this past week at the DC chapter of the APLN. His talk was titled “The Agile PMO: Scaling Agile through Adaptive Governance”. You can download the slides from his company’s website, but Sanjiv offered a few great points you won’t find in there.

“If you consistently deliver [...]

Read the full article →

4 Simple Steps For Tailoring Your Methodology

January 8, 2010

In the last few posts, I’ve been elaborating on an upcoming column I wrote for PM Network magazine. In those posts, we discovered that methodology doesn’t matter, but that doesn’t stop us from engaging in the methodology wars. In particular, the methodology war is about whether process compliance or process customization is more important for [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →