Very interesting presentation in the InfoQ site called Agile Project management: Lessons Learned at Google.
Jeff Sutherland, the creator of Scrum, talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google’s first implementation of Scrum. He tells how Google started with no engineering management, then gradually introduced Scrum without spoiling the development culture formed [...]

 By jurvetson
If you Google “decision making”, you get tons of results: in the first page, except the very first entry (that’s wikipedia ), there is a list of techniques, tools, strategies to achieve good decisions.
These techniques are surely useful and I think AN AVERAGE WELL-TIMED DECISION is by far better then a PERFECT LATE [...]

by grahambones
Supplier: <<PierG, for this time, as you are in a hurry, we have sent you a couple of our best designer. They will analyze the stuff with your business experts, will design / code / test the app and deploy a great product in a really short time frame. Are you happy??>>
PierG: <<Sure. But [...]

Scrum is probably a collection of best ideas of what a number of people in our profession come up over the years

PierG

By AMagill, Some rights reserved
As you know, if you read this blog, few days ago we run into a replacement of all keys that are used for automatic coffee machines or other automatic dispensers.
A pretty easy task: you just need to return your key, and the give back a new one with the correct [...]

If you are in the Project Management business (and if you are a boss, YOU ARE) there is a resource you can exploit for a better job: the Herding Cats blog.
In his last post, A Simple Way to Put PMBOK to Work, Glen Alleman summarize part of the famous PMBOK in a set of questions [...]

By Miroku, Some Rights Reserved
Reading other posts in the Gemba Panta Rei site, I’ve been redirected to an interesting article in the New Yorker site, called The Checklist.
There are a lot of great examples and thoughts, so read it if you like the topic!
Let me just underline something happened when Boeing, in 1935, [...]

Lately I read some posts / articles about a very important Lean practice called Standardized Work.
Here are some definitions from the Lean Advisors Site:
Standardized Work

A Task is completed exactly the same way every time no matter who is performing the procedure.

Standardized Work Instructions

A visual step-by-step documentation that displays how to complete a task. [...]

“Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a organizational development process; [...] it is a particular way of asking questions and envisioning the future that fosters positive relationships and builds on the basic goodness in a person, a situation, or an organization” - Wikipedia
The root of this process is a well known paradigm for anyone who has a [...]

Lately reading around the agile software development community, I feel that something is going wrong.
XP. SCRUM and all the other agile methodologies were borne with a single intention in mind ‘uncovering a better way of developing software‘.
That’s where I feel embarrassed: sometimes we forget that the goal of software development is to make the [...]