by Mike Edwards | May 22, 2013 | Behaviour, People, Project Management
If I gave your project $500,000 how would you spend it? If I took away $500,000 what wouldn’t you do? How many meetings are happening in your organization every day? These meetings are a huge draw on your budget but do they deliver value? In many organizations...
by Mike Edwards | May 8, 2013 | Agile, Lean, Project Management
Recently I saw a disturbing (but not unusual) event. Updating the project charter a mere two weeks from implementing the results of a project. Updates this late in the project even with the best of intentions really only serve to cover up the deficiencies in the...
by Mike Edwards | Apr 28, 2013 | Agile, Project Management, Risk
Risk. Did the US examine and mitigate the risk of a Japanese attack on Pearl harbour in 1941? Did the White Star Line consciously accept the risk of so many people dying when the Titanic was fitted with so few lifeboats? Did someone examine the risk of a blackout...
by Mike Edwards | Apr 21, 2013 | Agile, Behaviour, Lean, Project Management, Quality, Risk
Last week at the Agile Open Space in Toronto my friend Andrew Annett suggested we should start all projects red. I’ve been thinking about this concept all week and I think it’s brilliant! There are pitfalls with this approach, but it accurately portrays...
by Mike Edwards | Apr 17, 2013 | Agile, Behaviour, Lean, Project Management, Scope
Simplicity — the art of maximizing the amount of work not done — is essential. When we talk about value I find most people still get it wrong. If our projects are being effective we are maximizing the value delivered to our customers. In other words we...
by Mike Edwards | Mar 20, 2013 | Agile, Conferences, Lean, Project Management
Last week I returned home from Potsdam, Germany. I attended and spoke at Agile Dev Practices 2013. It was the first edition of this conference, and lets just say I look forward to attending again in the future! I took advantage of this opportunity with Rosie (my...
