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Make it or break it!

In the world of Business Transformation (BT), project management plays a critical part in the successful delivery of the business transformation programs to an extend where I can say it is a “Make it or Break it”

And why is that?

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by Christian Bisson, PMP

Story points, while an essential component of agile, are often misintrepeted.
And that’s a problem, as story points are are a vital unit of measure to help
estimate user stories. And stories, in turn, help teams plan their next sprint.
When they’re misint…

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by Dave Wakeman

I recently came across some of management guru Peter Drucker’s thoughts on project management.

As often happens with Drucker’s writing, the lessons he wrote about many years ago are still applicable today.

In his thinking about project management, Dru…

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Interesting questions posed in this Voices on Project Management post. Back in 2004, Wysocki wrote, “The amount of effort put into the design and implementation of a process does not really matter; there is always room for improvement. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the technical professions. As new technologies emerge, new
ways of doing things arise and we must change or die. In other words, an organization simply cannot stand still and expect project management to continue to function at expected levels of effectiveness. It must continuously improve processes or they will fall into misuse or no use at all” (Wysocki, 2004). As project complexity increases, can we afford to stand still in terms of process development?

by Lynda Bourne

Project managers and processes go hand in hand. But are the processes of the past the right ones to guide future projects? And if project management is evolving beyond today’s generally accepted 40 or 50 processes, what should the next version of A Guide to the Project M…

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Wysocki, R. K. (2004). Project management process improvement. Boston, MA: Artech House.