Archive for the ‘Project Management’ Category
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Pour sa 2ème édition, le Forum du Management de Projet PRINCE2™ aura lieu le 4 Juin 2008 à l’Espace Saint Martin 75003 Paris sur le thème "Implementing PRINCE2". N'hésitez pas à adresser une proposition de conférence au plus tard le 15 mai 2008 à Mathilde Lambert- mathilde.lambert[at]qrpmmi[dot]fr.
Exemples ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
The biggest obstacle to scrum efficiency is to be found in Company’s culture
A must read interview by Ken Schwaber, one of the signatoriess of the Agile Manisfesto who co-developed the Scrum process with Jeff Sutherland in the early 1990s.
The interview is fully available on the AgileCollab blog.
“However, as organizations and ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The following post appeared in my feed reader this morning : "....uuurrrrgggghhhhh Prince2 is killing me...."
It reminded me of the time when I was trying to learn straight from the PRINCE2 bible : "Managing successful projects with Prince2"
Sitting in the incredibly slow RER C, going to work, I would ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
An interesting wisdom of crowds like application to estimating software development workload in Agile projects.
Wisdom of crowds designates the process by which decisions and estimations are made as a result of a consensus between participants. Prediction Markets are a good example of consensus type process of estimation. Get people together ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Here is a truly impressive web site on PRINCE2. That includes sample exams, many helpful files and links, talks about issues and inconsistencies in PRINCE2, and a very clever way of browsing through the PRINCE2 Manual. I wish I had found out about this web site before I took ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Gabrielle Benefield, Yahoo's senior director of methods and practices is being interviewed on how Yahoo has been using Scrum and Agile methods internally for the past 3 years. Lessons From a Yahoo Scrum Rollout
[...] one of the key points of why this works is that we are dealing with ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
I found 2 great podcasts on Project Management:
The project management podcast by Cornelius Fitchner available at http://www.thepmpodcast.com. I just listened today to episode 66 dealing with motivation and in 45 minutes got a very good global picture of motivation theories and application in the Project management framework.
And Controlling Chaos by ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Last I wrote was on Monday last week at the beginning of my training week for the PRINCE2 practitioner exam. What a week it has been ! I did not have any minute outside of lessons, classes, homework and PRINCE2.
PRINCE2 is really something complex. A frame of mind in which ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
PRINCE2 est un méthode de gestion de projet très structurée tandis qu'Agile penche vers une approche plus souple et adaptative.
Plusieurs project manager - blogger abordent la question de l'intérêt qu'il y a à combiner Agile et PRINCE2.
Yves Hanoulle de la société paircoaching en belgique, se demande pourquoi de plus ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Getting proper training in France to become a PRINCE2 Practitionner is not easy as there are not many institutions offering training sessions.
After some research on the Internet I found out that the ESC Lille has regular training sessions.
Mine will start next week. The courses are situated in central Paris and ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
PRINCE 2 est un méthode de gestion de projet conçu par le Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) pour augmenter le taux de succès des projets IT.
La création de PRINCE2 remonte à 1975 sous le nom de PROMPTII. En 1989 PRINCE (Project IN Controlled Environment) devient la méthodologie standard ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
La plupart des moteurs de recherche (Google, Yahoo, Live Search, Ask.com, Exalead, ...) utilisent le protocole sitemap pour accélerer le référencement d'un site. Au lieu d'attendre que le robot du moteur vienne indexer les pages du site, il est possible de mettre à disposition des moteurs de recherche une liste ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
De plus en plus d'entreprises surtout anglo-saxonnes et nordiques utilisent des méthodologies de développement nommé Agile en remplacement des méthodes classiques dites en cascade / waterfall.
Scott Ambler donne la définition suivante de Agile :
Agile est un process itératif et incrémental de développement de logiciel. Ce process met l'accent sur la ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
In today's IHT cartoons, Dilbert takes a shot at agile development methodology. The usual characters are seated at a conference table. The boss is addressing Dilbert and some other guy.
1st frame, the Boss: "We're going to try something called Agile Programming"
2nd frame, the Boss : "That means no more planning ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
It's not about the singer performer formerly known as Prince, it's about the project management methodology. The acronym stands for PRojects INControlled Environment . It has been developped by the OGC (U.K.'s Office of Government Commerce) . What's funny is that when I started working on one of my first ...
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