Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Nov 5, 2009, 6:47 am
This Friday is a busy day for me. In the meantime, take a look at this. The Future Of WorkView more documents from Jeff Brenman.
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Nov 3, 2009, 4:00 pm
Alister Scott provides a simple little calcultion showing comparable full time and contract rates.  He compares an $80kpa full timer to a $60ph contractor and finds they earn about the same. If ...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Nov 3, 2009, 7:06 am
Matt Hodgson worries about about the BA community repeating the mistakes of the project management community by taking a narrow definition of the role and formalising it.  Embedding itself in a p...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Nov 2, 2009, 4:00 pm
There’s a lot of talk about outside in thinking and design , and about transformation driven by customer problems. And this talk tends to disparage the approach of “look[ing] around at their capa...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Oct 31, 2009, 5:00 pm
You may have heard of a Harvard University initiative to get MBAs to sign up to an oath on responsible value creation.  I found it via Mike Clayton's blog. Here it is; THE MBA OATHAs a manag...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Oct 29, 2009, 5:00 pm
This will probably spread like wildfire in the pm/agile blogging community. May as well get on the bandwagon!
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Oct 28, 2009, 5:00 pm
This prezi is by Matt Hodgson who i have been showcasing here a bit recently.  I like his presentatoions.  What can I say? This one does a good job of showing a path to agile practices...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Oct 28, 2009, 1:16 am
Do projects need leaders more than managers? Here is a definition of management Management is the process of achieving organizational goals through engaging in the four major functions of planning, ...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Oct 21, 2009, 5:47 am
1.  Here is a question at BATimes (login required) about what you would do if you felt a project was urposely delivering a product that would; Be functionally worse that the legacy system it rep...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Oct 19, 2009, 5:00 pm
Tim van Gelder writes a post on how boards use information and make decisions. Two key pieces of information that I took away from the post are that Boards will share better if they think they are s...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Oct 18, 2009, 1:47 am
iTWire reports a dozen common or critical failure modes for an agile implementation, lifted from Agile Australia 2009.  It's interesting to see the angle mainstream IT press in Australia has ...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Oct 16, 2009, 5:01 pm
"Never give a fool sterile information, because he cannot ignore it." So says Nasim Taleb when discussing risk management in the financial industry.  The same can be said about our indust...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Oct 14, 2009, 9:00 pm
Adrian at the Scrum Development message group handed out a list of resources for justifying co-location of teams.  It covers international and intra-building co-location. Your instincts tell you...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Oct 12, 2009, 4:45 pm
Planning is one way to anticipate the work you'll need to do.  Patterns are another. Plan for when the work is new, unknown and unique.  Patterns are for common problems. Some patterns...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Oct 12, 2009, 6:45 am
Hi people,  If you've clicked through to the site from your RSS or emails, you might have seen me tinkering with the site design.  Feel very free to tell me what works and what doesn'...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Sep 10, 2009, 6:00 pm
Up until about a year ago I had never heard of Design Patterns.  I learned about it shortly after I joined a team and the techies were in the process of  'interviewing' me. In the t...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Sep 9, 2009, 6:00 pm
I was talking to my sister in law on the weekend about the software/corporate project problem (you know, high failure rates, etc) and she confirmed that much of these issues also face her colleagiues ...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Sep 8, 2009, 6:00 pm
There is a lot in this for BAs and other requirements professionals.  (Thanks Matt.)
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Sep 7, 2009, 6:00 pm
Dimitrios Litsikakis has posted a knol on project success criteria.  You can go there and read it.  You can also edit it of you wish. The essay is broem into two parts.  the first secti...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Sep 5, 2009, 6:00 pm
The Zen of Scrum 1.1View more presentations from Jurgen Appelo.
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Sep 4, 2009, 6:00 am
Roger Cauvin publishes a blog focused on product management, a topic very close to enterprise business analysis. Last week he published a diagram from Pragmattic Marketing showing a framework for ...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Sep 2, 2009, 6:00 pm
There is a lively debate going on right now in the requirements engineering yahoo group on what THE requirements taxonomy should be. What is the difference between functional and business requirements...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Sep 1, 2009, 6:00 pm
Vikas, a reader mailed me and told me about a blog post he has written.  It's uses principles of road design to explore some ideas of good and bad system design in project management. It'...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Aug 30, 2009, 6:00 pm
...and has been for 14 or 15 years. W Edwards Deming offers some advice via 1984. This clip nominates 5 management diseases. How have things changed in the last 25 years? Thanks to John at Curious...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Aug 27, 2009, 6:00 pm
The DoD handbook points us to defining three levels of a WBS when managing a project, and the same is probably a requirement for a supplier in that environments; show me the top three levels of your w...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Aug 25, 2009, 6:00 pm
Organisational capability affects how you resource a team. 1. In a low capability org you need more people. 2. In a low capability org you will face more resitance to the true cost 3. In a low maturi...
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Craig B. posted an article on Better Projects - Aug 24, 2009, 6:00 pm
A question was asked onthe Requirements Engineering discussion group about the difference between business requirements versus stakeholder requirements. Can you answer that without looking the answer...
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