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November 15, 2011

Bridging Project Management to Agile Development

Posted by Sebastian Cazacu under Agile, programme management, project management
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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
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October 31, 2011

Don’t miss the benefits of CMMI

Posted by Sebastian Cazacu under Change Management, CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, Process Improvement, programme management, project management
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We often emphasize the need to do process improvement on a continuous basis, as an ingrained component in the “business as usual” operations. However, what about the management of this activity, should it be performed as operations management? (more…)

March 15, 2011

Apples, Oranges and Non-Sequiters

Posted by David Piper under Agile, CMMI, Process Improvement, programme management, project management
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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.

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February 23, 2011

CMMI and Defence Acquisition – its time.

Posted by Graham Dick under CMMI, CMMI-ACQ, CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, Process Improvement, programme management, project management
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Ouch – another uncompromising report from the Commons Public Accounts Committee – this time aimed at MOD procurement. I appreciate that of course this is an insanely complex high pressured environment that really does play for big stakes – however given that situation how can not being the best of the best be an option? Maybe now is the time to learn from the US DOD and start to apply CMMI as part of the answer to evolving to a robustly more capable DE&S?

The Public Accounts Committee report in question – “The 23rd Report – The Major Projects Report 2010″ can be downloaded here.

CMMI made Practical 2011, held on the 12th and 13th April 2011 has some 70% of speakers from real end user organisations discussing how they have used CMMI to demonstrably increase their capability.

Find out how the US DOD invests in structured capability improvement with Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute.

October 25, 2010

Talent isn’t optional……

Posted by Andrew Griffiths under Change Management, CMMI, Process Improvement, programme management
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One FTE has become one of my favorite websites recently, I am also a Dilbert fan but these just seem to be that little more cutting! This caught my eye…….don’t forget Talent isn’t optional. (more…)

October 13, 2010

Inventions, obvious once discovered

Posted by John Evans under CMMI, programme management, project management
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Inventions are generally obvious once they have been discovered. For Example take the invention of Velcro^tm, a material that we all understand and take for granted these days.

The hook-and-loop fastener was invented in 1941 by Swiss engineer, George de Mestral, the idea came to him one day after returning from a hunting trip with his dog in the Alps. He took a close look at the burrs (seeds) of burdock that kept sticking to his clothes and his dog’s fur. He examined them under a microscope, and noted their hundreds of “hooks” that caught on anything with a loop, such as clothing, animal fur, or hair. He saw the possibility of binding two materials reversibly in a simple fashion, if he could figure out how to duplicate the hooks and loops. (more…)

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