Today, I attended a webinar entitled: "An Agile Developer's Guide to Lean Software Development" hosted by Alan Shalloway, from NetObjectives. Shalloway is a noted expert in applying both Agile and Lean methods to Software Development.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Today, I attended a webinar entitled: "We Need it By October: What's Your Estimate?" hosted by Tim Lister, from the Atlantic Systems Guild. Lister is a noted expert in Risk Management, having written a book with Tom DeMarco entitled: "Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects".
Thursday, August 06, 2009
As I wrote in a recent posting, Failure is Not an Option, the Standish Group recently published its latest CHAOS report identifying the factors driving success for IT projects (see article "CHAOS Summary 2009").
For those like me who have never worked in IT, it's a bit puzzling to see such high failure rates on projects. So what's going on here?
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Philip Kotler, Robert C. Wolcott and Suj Chandrasekhar recently wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal on Product Development entitled "Playing Well With Others".
Marilyn Bier, the executive director at ARMA International, recently posted an article (entitled "Businesses Still Lag Best Practices in Information Management") that documents the results from ARMA's 2009 Record Management survey (of ARMA International members and information professionals).