6 Articles match "Project Management","Resource"

9 Articles match "Project Management","Resource"

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• Book review: Agile Project Management with SCRUM (and rant)
  
  It is difficult to say anything bad about Agile Project Management with Scrum (Schwaber, 2004). It sticks to its topic - managing projects using scrum. It is clear to me now (if there was ever any doubt) that Scrum is the management side that is missing from XP. That’s one reason why so many IT projects go wrong, people wait for someone else to fix it. Consider them resources to better your understanding. It is a short book, lucid and easy to read. If this book has a failing it is: who will read it? I’m not sure. courses, books, alliances, etc.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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• How do you do innovation?
  
  started to get all excited about innovation on Friday, when one of my managers said: “Allan, do you know anything we can do to improve innovation?” Of course there is one obvious answer: 20% personal projects, its the 3M example – and now Google. Just about everyone seems to have heard this example so I’ll be brief in my comments: at 3M engineers are encouraged to spend about 20% (figure varies depending on who you read and which company it is) on “personal projects.” Some of these projects eventually make it to full products, like Post-it pads and Google News.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 24, 2005
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• Heathrow part 2 – a major learning failure
  
  To recap: BAA decided that T5 was such a big project, and so strategically important, that they couldn’t follow “traditional” construction practice and outsource it to the cheapest bidder. So, BAA more or less re-invented construction project management along lean principle and delivered their new terminal on time and on budget. BAA treated T5 construction as a project, the project (mostly) ended when T5 was given to BA. At that point the bad management, sloppy thinking, and lack of customer respect endemic in the rest of BAA came to T5. Now to BA.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, April 20, 2008
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• For all my IT contractor friends in the City: Rates are up
  
  This is logical, the City pays well, jobs come and go but there are always projects, they just move around. Most of the problems I have seen or been told about in the City are down to: • No shared goals between departments, call it political infighting if you prefer couples with: • Individuals who will not share their knowledge: traders, analysis, quants and yes, especially IT people • People who don’t understand IT and a continued belief that IT is like any other resource to be managed the same way. Specifically: are we looking at another down town like in 2001/2002?
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Saturday, February 16, 2008
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• Who are you? - identity and change
  
  m a software engineer by trade, what I do is write programs, design them too, perhaps get involved in process discussions or elements of project management. And perhaps I want to leave project management to someone else. project manager I know always speaks to me about projects in terms of “risks” and “tasks to be done” - I once told him I was examining the strategy behind the project and his reply was something like “why are you doing the? It was determined by management months ago, all we have to do is execute.” Testing?
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, September 6, 2005
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• Who owns the product?
  
  I’ve mentioned a few times that I’ve recently moved from software development to product management. Before you ask I’ll admit it, my project is not running Agile/Lean. Because a) it was running when I got involved, b) its a “small” project – small in the sense of number of people involved. Difficult this one, probably, placed in the position of my managers I would never have started this project. Put it another way: no side bets, no micro projects. But I didn’t want to write about project management here. Why not? Ownership is important.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, September 14, 2005
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• Knowledge based product development
  
  I've commented here before that I have recently become a Product Manager - when I say recently it was almost six months ago now. Of course I want to be a good product manager so I've been looking around material to tell me how to be a good product manager, much to my surprise I find that there are very few books written on the subject of product management. Indeed depending on your industry the role of Product Manager differs. In my search for product management books I came across " Product Development For The Lean Enterprise " by Michael N.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, September 30, 2005
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