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Question Your Project Customer When leading technical projects, project managers and their teams know the task ahead can be a daunting one. So, when the customer comes with a desired solution mapped out and detailed requirements in hand, the first thing you want to do is move forward. That's your cue to start asking questions. |
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Agile Code for Agile Teams What makes a team agile? Is it in the way it plans projects or how it engineers its products? In this article, Steve Berczuk explains how agile code and technical practices can help a team stay agile across the product lifecycle. |
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Is Test Automation a “Project”? Test automation can turn into a real pain in the neck if a designated team is in charge of it or if the automators work on it as a separate project. In this article, Lisa Crispin seconds Bob Jones’s recent call for whole-team test automation and elaborates on the dangers of relegating test automation to an isolated project rather than integrating it into the overall software development process. |
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Power of Post-its with Payson Hall In this article, which originally appeared in the August 2006 issue of the Sticky ToolLook, Payson Hall talks about a helpful, inexpensive brainstorming and project management tool that most of us have close at hand: the sticky note. |
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Project Portfolio Management: An Interview with Johanna Rothman Johanna Rothman is a management consultant, regular StickyMinds.com columnist, and AgileConnection’s technical editor. Johanna talks about the year in software, the rise of project portfolio management, and whether we will continue to see organizations adopt agile in the new year. |
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Who Defines “Success” for Your Project? An otherwise good project management book provokes Payson with definition of “success” that rubs him the wrong way. In this article, he presents his case. |
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On the Road: Adventures in Consulting on 9-11 During the many years Lee Copeland has been a software consultant, he's logged quite a few travel miles and amassed numerous tales from all over the world. This story, originally published on StickyMinds.com in November 2001, takes place during and after the September 11 attacks. |
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No Group Is a Team on Day One Assembling a group of people and declaring them a team doesn’t make them one. Do you have the conditions necessary for the team to form? What activities have they completed to help them find an identity, their purpose, and how they’ll interact with each other? |
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Filling The Blank Page Having trouble starting projects, understanding scope and business processes, or with estimation? Mark shares some tips and techniques to avoid common business analysis pain points at the early part of a new project assignment. |
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Mobile Challenges for Project Management: The Project Factors Developing software for mobile apps requires a different mindset from developing for computers. Some concepts transfer directly, but there are many device-related challenges managers must overcome. In part one of this two-part series on mobile challenges, Jonathan Kohl addresses some of the project factors managers should take into account during mobile application development. |
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