The Scrum vs. Kanban debates rage on in the blogosphere but I can’t help but feel that our Agile community is missing the point. Where is the “People and interactions over processes and tools” that is part of the core values? I commented on Rachel Davies’s post about what she calls W-Agile (waterfall disguised as …
Another Knowledge Area in the PMBOK is Human Resource Management. The very name of the knowledge area already gives away the values behind it. It should not say “resource management”, it should say People Management! The old-skool project management is very much based on the values of Scientific Management and Hierarchical organizations that have permeated …
In the spirit of Lean my colleague and friend Mika Pehkonen writes how they are able to respect people, get them to do what they are best at and most motived to do. I’d say that’s a win-win-win situation! we pay our translators by the hour, not by word count. This means that the translator …
