Project Management in Practice

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Tag Archives: Agile

Where is the line between agility and chaos?

3 Comments Posted by on April 24, 2012

We are living in an age of social media. One where opinions are best expressed in 140 characters or less, hashtags galore and needs need to be met instantly. There is a level of agility required to work well in this environment. If an organization rigidly sticks to how business used to be done, more [...]

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When projects go too well

1 Comment Posted by on April 2, 2012

As a Project Manager, I strive to ensure my projects go really well. Experience tells me that all projects will go through some difficult periods during its execution. Projects are inherently risky and not all risks, influences and impacts can be predicted in advance. That and years of experience delivering projects has made me weary [...]

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Is Agile for me?

3 Comments Posted by on January 12, 2012

If you talk to any project team, you will find varying range of opinions regarding the best methodology for development – all very passionately putting their points of view across. Barring the occasional accident, most of these teams have given considerable thought to what is most applicable to them and have followed that course. When [...]

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How do you remove dependency on individuals?

1 Comment Posted by on December 19, 2011

One of the key challenges faced by a Project Manager is to ensure their project is not beholden to an individual for its success or failure. This is especially the case longer the project is in motion. This challenge is faced by the project teams more often than it is acknowledged. Consider what happens if [...]

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PRINCE2, ITIL, Agile … can I have the best of all?

12 Comments Posted by on April 14, 2011

There is a lot of discussion about what the best methodology is to adopt for an organisation. As soon as the discussion moves in that direction, it moves away from realities of any Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Projects simply do not mushroom out of thin air. Something causes a realisation in the organisation that [...]

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