What Is Strategic Project Leadership?
For decades project teams focused on getting the job done within budget and in time. This approach is valid now and will be for the time being, yet, increasing dynamics in competition change the rules of the PM game. Now, getting the project done within a set of boundaries is not enough anymore.
When More Information Leads To Less Knowledge
In his article on Wired.com Clive Thompson illustrates how increased load of information can lead to a loss of knowledge due to ignorance or suppression of the truth. Surprisingly, it’s often us who unconsciously ignore or suppress the truth.
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The Irony About Agile Development
There’s an irony about agile development. There is no hard evidence that it produces better software, faster. And formal adoption rates, admittedly hard to measure, don’t reach the 20 percent mark. Yet, the ideas that underpin agile development — defining requirements incrementally, writing software in short stints, seeking customer feedback, testing code as it’s written, frequent builds — have caught on like wildfire. They are widely accepted as sound development practices, even among teams that have not formally adopted them.