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Project Management Crumbs: May 2015

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Saturday, May 23, 2015. From Start-up to corporate - Why you still need some "crazy" project. Hi to everyone,. Some time ago, I was asked to give a short presentation during a kick-off meeting, showing to all the project's stakeholders, the reasons why the project had been chartered. The result astonished me, because, apart the peculiarities of that project, the bottom line message was something more intense that I had expected. In this post, I want to propose you that message, with a presentation. Intro...

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Project Management Crumbs: April 2015

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Monday, April 27, 2015. Which are the agile project management's disruptive features? Some years ago, an expert program manager told me that agile project management was like sex seen by teenagers. Everybody keep saying that he does it, just a few really do it, and almost anyone does it properly. In my experience, what many professionals seem to identify with agile methodologies are just iterative planning, light (or evanescent) documentation, and no strict prescriptions. Many agile project management me...

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Project Management Crumbs: March 2015

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Monday, March 30, 2015. Agile planning and the story points approach - Part 01. We begin with this post a series dedicated to the exploration of a well-known agile planning techniques. The story points estimation method. In this post, we will introduce some fundamental concepts with the aid of a very simple example. In subsequent posts, we will dive a little more into depth, discussing why this approach works, exposing common pitfalls and, hopefully, answering some doubts. Let us try a little experiment.

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Project Management Crumbs: Acceptance criteria. A real life example.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013. Acceptance criteria. A real life example. Once, while travelling for business, I spent a couple of days in one of the most famous Italian art city. My staying was limited to a single night; anyhow my company booked me a 4 stars hotel. I knew that hotel classification in Italy goes to 1 to 5 stars. Therefore, I was more than pleased with the accommodation. Obviously, my company had no fault, since they have based the hotel's choice on the high rating. We have a list of require...

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Project Management Crumbs: Project management: Do you really need to be No.1?

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Project management: Do you really need to be No.1? Some time ago, I attended a very crowded and unbelievable long meeting. It was a kind of mixture between a brainstorming session and a focus group. Suddenly, the discussion remained stuck around this point. How can we be considered the No. 1 company in our industry? Why struggle so hard to be considered No. 1? Do you think our customers really care about that? An example from industry. In 1962, Avis came out with a brand new ...

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Project Management Crumbs: Communication crumbs

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Monday, February 11, 2013. Communication is probably the most critical task in project management and not surprisingly is often one of the greatest challenge a project manager has to face. What is maybe less surprising is the fact that it is not only poor communication planning that can harm a project but also its overabundance. I want to tell you a story. The problem was that just a few stakeholders seemed to have found the time to read it. What do we learn from this story? How it should be. Be careful ...

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Project Management Crumbs: December 2014

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014. A survey on salaries for project managers in the UK. It comes a time when one asks himself this question:. What could I be worth? The answer is not easy. It is not easy because the very definition of "Worth" is not straightforward. Can everything be converted into cash and added up? Am I worth what I earn? Even if this were the case, one could ask himself this same question the other way round: Am I making what I worth? Crafted by Simon Buehring. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Project Management Crumbs: Project Management and Locus of Control - Part 01

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Saturday, August 23, 2014. Project Management and Locus of Control - Part 01. While I was going back home, I kept thinking about what my friend told me, and I felt a little sad about that. I do not know anyone of his colleagues personally, and I assume (yes I know. assumptions. Are tricky.) that he was right to be disappointed. After a little, I realized that I was watching just one side of the coin, and I tried to change the perspective. Are these behaviors always positive or negative? An individual tha...

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Project Management Crumbs: Portfolio Management - A Financial Approach - Part 2

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Thursday, April 17, 2014. Portfolio Management - A Financial Approach - Part 2. In the last post. Of this series, we introduced some statistical concepts useful to analyze and to optimize the composition of a portfolio of projects. In particular, we have characterized projects as black boxes, which absorb resources and generate returns. Another measure, introduced in the last post. The concepts presented in this post are largely derived from modern portfolio management theories introduced by Harry Markow...

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Project Management Crumbs: Perception and project management processes value

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Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Perception and project management processes value. Perception is a funny thing; this, if nothing, I have learned in my life. It has never happened to you, to involuntary hurt someone else’s feelings, just by sending him/her one e-mail, which you thought was neutral? On the other hand, have you ever been upset by a friend’s humorous comment, that, in the author’s intentions, was meant to be no more than a joke? The same pattern applies also to project management processes. On the y...