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KTTW

Productivity can get lost in the haze of doing.  We often mistake the furious completion of many tasks in short order as an example of accomplishment.  Proudly, we mark it ‘done’ and then triumph in...

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Custom Built Software Is a Depreciating Asset

Custom built software.  It occurred to me this week that this ‘asset’ as it’s categorized by GAAP is a depreciating asset, much like a car or piece of capital equipment ( machinery ). Does it derive...

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A Caboodle of Pragilematic Posts

I’ve been hanging out and posting at the ASPE SDLC blog.  Yes…I have their permission to do that.  Geesh.  Check em out Gilbert: Six Things To Avoid When Reporting Project Status - Project status is...

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Iterations Are to IT What Containers Were To Shipping

Introduction Container shipping transformed the way goods were transported across geography and channel.   Instead of having many diverse payloads in differing container configurations for different...

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The Real Project Management Triangle

As a project manager you’ve heard and seen this diagram too often in your career.  It’s often said that project managers are responsible for delivering on scope, budget and schedule.  In turn they are...

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NEWS ITEM: Scrum Extensions Update – 1Q 2012

My most recent news item covers the latest scrum extensions and asks a few questions about the purpose and future direction for scrum extensions.

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The Agile Management Fad

Is Agile a management fad?  Is its blistering adoption throughout the world rooted in a proven value driven approach or the hysteria of the masses clamoring for a new trend to profit from and identify...

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Why I Need Mobile Payments NOW

I keep all my receipts and at certain points in the month I can no longer sit flat on a chair.  I’m moving to Google Wallet.  Please no Seinfeld jokes.

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Can NASA Solve the Debt Crisis?

We can build machines that cover 140 million miles (225 million km), put themselves into orbit around Mars, nearly pinpoint their intended landing site through a brutal and high risk atmospheric entry...

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Would You Rather Plan For Risk or React To Circumstance

I was asked recently by someone I greatly admire and respect, “Wouldn’t you rather plan for risk than react to the circumstances that befall your project?” At the time I was stumped.  Yes I guess I...

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Thank You Wikipedia!

Wikipedia recently added one of my articles as a reference.  Check out reference #53 on the Agile Software Development topic.  Does that mean my views are now part of mainstream thinking on Agile?...

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KTTW

Productivity can get lost in the haze of doing.  We often mistake the furious completion of many tasks in short order as an example of accomplishment.  Proudly, we mark it ‘done’ and then triumph in...

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Interstellar Imperialism

Getting to Mars is a technical, logistical, and psychological challenge.  While getting to the Moon may have required no more motivation than nationalism and being able to say “we did it”, Mars will...

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Apollo – America’s Lost Opportunity

The Apollo mission is always held as a great point in American history.  But imagine this…if Spain had reached the new world and decided that getting there was enough and came home, never colonizing...

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