Monthly Archives: December 2009

30 December 09

Does your project management methodology lets you free think?

Its not about the project management methodology anymore. Frankly, it never was, even though it has triggered off some of the most senseless wars in the history of project management. Starting with Frederick Winslow Taylor‘s Scientific Management to Henry Ford‘s assembly-line based mass production system and eventually landing in a flavor-of-the-day methodology (CMM, ISO, Agile, XP, Scrum, Lean, Kanban…and add your favorite one here), project management community, especially in software field, has seen it all…and still counting! All these project management methodologies have been eulogized as silver bullets in their heydays (and some still continue to be worshipped as we speak), …more

Are you splurging long-term dollars for a short-term fix ?
23 December 09

Are you splurging long-term dollars for a short-term fix ?

Diagnosing the root cause of a problem is a critical analytical skill. Most often, what you see is not what you get - the symptoms might indicate something, but the root cause might be entirely different. Some cases require a short-term fix - an immediate one, while some require careful …more

What can we learn from CAT’s failures ?
12 December 09

What can we learn from CAT’s failures ?

 (This plog post is contributed by Lt Col (Retd) Rahul Kumar, Managing Director of Srijan Consulting, Bangalore. In this post, he analyses recent failure of the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the premier B-schools of India, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), and raises key questions on how one should …more

Codifying Agile Skills or creating more checklists ?
8 December 09

Codifying Agile Skills or creating more checklists ?

Did you check out the Agile Skills Projects yet ? It seems to be a new and interesting initiative to “… establish a common baseline of the skills an Agile developer needs to have, including a shared vocabulary and understanding of fundamental practices”. They talk about Agile Skills Matrix that …more

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