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 9, 2013 | Agile, Lean, Project Management, Scope
Early in my PM career if I was asked whether I had a failed project I would proudly say “No!”. When questioned I would tell them how I equated project success to no surprises for my customer. Then I would go on to talk about the good documentation I...
by Mike Edwards | Oct 16, 2012 | Agile, Behaviour, Lean, Project Management, Scope
Did you ever find yourself on a project which is going bad? There are numerous ways teams and organizations react to project problems. One of the more destructive types I’ve seen is to move to become time driven at all costs. When time boxing is handled effectively...
by Mike Edwards | Aug 24, 2012 | Lean, Project Management, Quality, Scope
I’ve talked with and participated in numerous PMOs who define the iron triangle as Time, Cost and Quality. Stop it! You should never be accepting quality as a trade-off… ever! The third side of the iron triangle is Scope and you should not change that. I know of...
