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Losing the Battle One Hill at a Time: Scope Creep in an Agile World Some issues/hills are important and worth going all in – but most probably aren’t. Project managers must choose their battles wisely and develop scope discipline.
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Maintenance Debt: When You See Cracks, It’s Too Late The longer maintenance is deferred—which is easy to do in the short term—the more expensive it becomes and the more difficult it can be to schedule. |
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If Things Aren’t Going Well, When Do You Want to Know? Ask people to describe the number one job of a project manager and few will get it right. Payson Hall discusses the most important part of project manager's role.
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And Now a Word from (One of) Your Customers… A plea to software product owners to avoid adding buggy features or making capricious changes to your GUI. Quality matters, remember? |
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Your Project Might Be in Trouble If... As I start my fifth decade working on projects, primarily in the IT and software development space, I wanted to share some patterns I have observed that suggest a project is in trouble, Jeff Foxworthy style. |