Depending upon your personality, when you hear the word “discovery” you might instantly think of someone like Leif Eriksson or Francis Drake or Roald Amundsen. Or, you might be the type who thinks of a legal discovery, in which parties…
Project Management
Beware Boilerplate Software Project Estimates
This is a cautionary tale. Goldilocks, if you’re out there, pay attention. No matter where your cubicle is at in the stream of the software development process, you’ve undoubtedly had to deal with estimates. Either you have had to generate…
Stop and Smell the Future
Imagine if at the end of this life you had a new body and a new life ahead of you. Go ahead, try it…
Software Teams: Assessing a Problem
Sometimes software teams fail to understand and effectively articulate a difficult user-level problem and…
Do You Review?
All I have to ask is, “Do you review?” to get the most amazing reactions. Usually it’s…
Are You a Closet Product Manager?
I’m going to hazard a guess that if you work for a company that has software as its primary product, you know if you are a Product Manager…
What’s New in Project Management
I recently attended a conference on agile software development. It was a well-attended event with interesting breakout sessions and renowned keynote speakers. There were talks on…
Defining and Managing Risk
You are probably expecting a dull and boring article about life insurance, right? Not exactly.
Data Warehouses: Special Considerations
Business today runs much like it has for millennia. Historically, most businesses have been run more by gut feel than any actual metric…
The Fine Art of Project Estimation
As a consulting company, we don’t have the luxury of working without a defined project scope…
