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23/09/201422/12/2014 on #NoEstimates, agile, lean, principles, project management, scrum

The No Estimates principle: The importance of knowing when you are wrong

You started the project. You spent hours, no: days! estimating the project. The project starts and your confidence in its success is high. Everything goes well at the start, but at some point you find the project is late. What happened? How can you be wrong about estimates? This story very common in software projects. …

17/08/200928/12/2014 on agile, PMBOK, pmi, principles, process, project management

“Déjà vu” all over again, or why PMI/PMBOK are dangerous for the agile movement

There are significantly different sets of beliefs between what I call Old-Skool project management (embodied by PMBOK) and what is emerging as Agile project management for Software Development. Old-skool project management is based on values and scientific breakthroughs that are over 100 years old. Scientific management (Frederick Taylor, circa 1911) Cost based management (optimizing costs …