Like many businesses we have shrunk a bit over the last couple of years. As a result we’ve accumulated a bit of ‘tech’ – old laptops, broken laptops etc that we wanted rid of. We also had a few of the CMMI V1.2 books still hanging around, superseded by the new v1.3 material. So what did we do – answer we did what everyone does and slung them onto eBay.
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March 30, 2012
eBay, tech and irony
Posted by Graham Dick under CMMI, Process Improvement, Change Management, programme management, project management, Agile1 Comment
December 14, 2011
One Size Gives Rigor Mortis
Posted by David Piper under Agile, CMMI, Process ImprovementLeave a Comment
CMMI, for all its alleged faults, is smart enough to recognize that one size does NOT fit all. The truth is even more extreme, organizations tempted into the “one true process” quickly realize that “one size fits no one”. (more…)
November 15, 2011
Bridging Project Management to Agile Development
Posted by Sebastian Cazacu under Agile, programme management, project management1 Comment
Many practitioners in the IT sector are now looking to Agile methods as a way to improve their development capabilities and overall business
performance. However, a long lasting debate exists between the so-called traditional Project Managers and the Agile community. Much of this debate is generated by confusion between the purposes of Agile development and Project Management methods.
There is nothing to prevent the use of both Project Management and Agile development for a successful completion of a software or systems development project. However, a distinction between the two is required, in order to understand how to use each of them, as well as to set the
right expectations. (more…)
October 21, 2011
I attended the Agile Business conference for the the n’th year recently and for the first time I really felt that the Agile community is beginning to “get” the need for process and management co-ordination in a way they they have only partially nodded to before. (more…)
October 4, 2011
Agile and CMMI – Surely Not?
Posted by Graham Dick under Agile, CMMI, CMMI-DEV, Process ImprovementLeave a Comment
I was chatting with a customer the other day who has a relatively small development environment and has achieved some really demonstrative benefits using CMMI to drive his process improvement programme. He has successfully illustrated how CMMI works in a small setting. The quite exciting point is that unlike so many process improvement projects that just “die a death” this one is moving on and evolving.
June 6, 2011
Why are so many projects underestimated? I guess it’s because so many people think of estimation as an art. Yet what many organizations want, above all, is a degree of predictability that just cannot be provided by most project plans and estimates.
Instead, what we see is lots of esti-artists (no alcohol involved) displaying shocking symptoms of chronic optimism. So here at optimists anonymous, we are developing new techniques to help these poor sufferers, and the organizations that look after them. With lots of care and hard work, we can teach these sufferers to satisfy the predictability junkies at the top of the organization.
Where do the symptoms of chronic optimism appear from? Well first most sufferers are woefully unaware of the actual work that has to be performed to deliver a project successfully. Plans contain interesting tasks like “Do Testing” – a task lasting for 6 or more weeks, but without any more details. And, oh by the way, what about things like “Write Some Tests” and “Put Stuff Right”. Doh! (more…)
April 28, 2011
CMMI made Practical 2011 – The Photo’s
Posted by Graham Dick under Agile, Change Management, CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, ConferenceLeave a Comment
We’ve already had a lot of very positive feedback regarding this years conference – comments that ranged from how pleased delegates were at the sheer practicality of the even, how it brought CMMI down to earth and to life with many real life case studies. Other delegates were delighted that speakers addressed the complex change management dimensions involved. For me – I think the awesome conference photos just speak for themselves – have a look at them here on flikr.
April 27, 2011
CMMI made Practical 2011 – look back ..
Posted by Graham Dick under Agile, Change Management, CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, Conference, ISO 20000, ITIL, Process ImprovementLeave a Comment
Having just come back after a few days off following this year’s successful CMMI made Practical I thought I would reflect and see what messages seemed to shout out now that a couple of weeks have passed. So impressions …
March 15, 2011
Apples, Oranges and Non-Sequiters
Posted by David Piper under Agile, CMMI, Process Improvement, programme management, project managementLeave a Comment
Lamri have recently had sight of a spreadsheet form Capers Jones that purports to analyze the total cost of ownership of a standardised application built using different types of “software development methodologies”. It makes for very interesting reading and presents some very surprising results. At first sight, anyway.
March 2, 2011
Project Monitoring and Control.
Some statistics – the word “control” occurs in the text of the process area 3 times – once each in the name, the purpose and the first paragraph of the introductory notes (CMMI-DEV vn 1.3). So why “control”? (more…)
