by PMO Advisory | Jun 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Mary Shacklett for TechRepublic.com writes 4 scrum best practices to keep your app development projects on track [Excerpted] ……..”Scrum is an alternate approach to the assembly line-style handoffs that occurred in traditional software development,...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
Chris Tepedino for Dzone writes: [excerpted] “…..Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, two of the signatories on the Manifesto, wrote that commendation of Nonaka and Takeuchi in The Scrum Papers, which defined and explained the Agile process. For them, scrum...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
Rich Maltzman for ProjectsatWork writes [excerpted]…” Here’s a basic project management truism: Risks = Threats + Opportunities That is, a project’s risks are made up of uncertain events, which, if they were to occur, have anegative OR positive effect on...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
With your advanced skills in risk management, you perform a specialized function attuned to the needs of a project environment that is increasingly global, virtual and complex. The PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® highlights your ability to identify and...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sharon Florentine from CIO writes: [excerpt] ….”In agile and scrum, the focus is on the outcome of a project and the “why” of solving a business problem, not on “how” it’s done, which was a major problem with the traditional...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
FEDWeek writes: Federal agencies consistently use at least some OMB guidance in assessing the risk of their IT projects but overall they understate that risk, GAO has said. GAO was examining agency compliance with the Federal Information Technology Acquisition...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
PMI NJ writes: By its nature, a Business Continuity Program develops plans to prepare for the unexpected. This conflicts with a key principle of project management – that timely decisions and certainty of goals are essential to delivering a project successfully....
by PMO Advisory | Jun 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
Joe Alfaro for DZone writes [excerpted]…..”Communication, transparency, trust – these are the qualities that SCRUM brings to the development process that helps create the environment for successful teams. There are other qualities, like individual...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Excerpted from CFO, Mark A. Langley writes, “….In a recent PMI survey, 83% of high-performing organizations reported they “always” or “often” manage risk in conjunction with project management, compared to only 49% of low performers. (We define high...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
The most popular Agile methodology today, Scrum, reflects a horizontal ideology of enablement. The objective is to create workspaces that can draw on the full talents and capabilities of those doing the work to deliver value to customers, and systematically remove any...
