// Archives

Welcome to the Archives. Here you’ll find every article ever written, conveniently organized by the year and, somewhat more usefully, article category (a completely arbitrary taxonomy that is utterly clear to me, but probably somewhat obfuscated to everyone else).

2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

  • Asides

  • Cohesive teams
  • Collabnet acquires Danube
  • First, care. Care intensely.
  • Hiring for the culture
  • It’s never a good time for training
  • Memory aids
  • Rational Scrum opens for business
  • Recommended reading
  • Rocket science made easy
  • Scrum and Agile becoming widely accepted
  • Scrum workshop
  • Should Training be an Integral Part of a Project Budget to Increase Project Profitability?
  • The case against releasing early
  • The Weekly Review as an OmniFocus Project
  • Training is number one
  • White-board to wall-space ratio
  • Whiteboard as a PM tool
  • Why projects fail 101
  • Workshop and training topic survey

  • Education

  • Articulating the value of training
  • Common oversights in choosing methodology
  • Don’t ship broken software
  • Finding strategic learning funds
  • Formal inspections: An introduction
  • Making Scrum work: Common failings in adopting Scrum
  • Mission impossible — the art of choosing the right project
  • Navigating the methodology maze
  • Organizational evolution
  • Rational Scrum
  • So you think you’re following Scrum?
  • The case for certification
  • Whole teams
  • Why heroes are bad

  • Entropy

  • Finding strategic learning funds
  • Mission impossible — the art of choosing the right project
  • Organizational evolution
  • Scrum is not an agile methodology
  • Software cost estimation: Where’s the silver bullet?
  • The case for certification
  • Why heroes are bad

  • Featured

  • Why Agile isn’t enough (and why it doesn’t work)
  • Why heroes are bad

  • Getting Things Done

  • Fix your boss (or, reduce risk to quality using a matrix approach)
  • Mission impossible — the art of choosing the right project
  • Not a panacea, but trying: Comindwork is attractive
  • Software cost estimation: Where’s the silver bullet?

  • Process

  • Articulating the value of training
  • Common oversights in choosing methodology
  • Exposing the enterprise to risk: Who decides what not to test?
  • Fix your boss (or, reduce risk to quality using a matrix approach)
  • Formal inspections: An introduction
  • Making Scrum work: Common failings in adopting Scrum
  • Navigating the methodology maze
  • Not a panacea, but trying: Comindwork is attractive
  • Quality assurance as a way of life
  • Quality versus quantity
  • Scrum is not an agile methodology
  • So you think you’re following Scrum?
  • Software cost estimation: Where’s the silver bullet?
  • What do you mean, SQA isn’t testing?
  • Whole teams
  • Why Agile isn’t enough (and why it doesn’t work)
  • Why heroes are bad

  • Quality

  • Exposing the enterprise to risk: Who decides what not to test?
  • Fix your boss (or, reduce risk to quality using a matrix approach)
  • Formal inspections: An introduction
  • Not a panacea, but trying: Comindwork is attractive
  • Quality assurance as a way of life
  • What do you mean, SQA isn’t testing?
  • Why Agile isn’t enough (and why it doesn’t work)

  • Rational

  • Rational Scrum
  • What do you mean, SQA isn’t testing?
  • Why Agile isn’t enough (and why it doesn’t work)

  • Scrum

  • Making Scrum work: Common failings in adopting Scrum
  • Quality versus quantity
  • Rational Scrum
  • Scrum is not an agile methodology
  • So you think you’re following Scrum?
  • Whole teams
  • Why Agile isn’t enough (and why it doesn’t work)

  • Things that Matter

  • Articulating the value of training
  • Common oversights in choosing methodology
  • Don’t ship broken software
  • Exposing the enterprise to risk: Who decides what not to test?
  • Finding strategic learning funds
  • Fix your boss (or, reduce risk to quality using a matrix approach)
  • Making Scrum work: Common failings in adopting Scrum
  • Navigating the methodology maze
  • Not a panacea, but trying: Comindwork is attractive
  • Organizational evolution
  • Quality assurance as a way of life
  • Quality versus quantity
  • Rational Scrum
  • Scrum is not an agile methodology
  • Software cost estimation: Where’s the silver bullet?
  • What do you mean, SQA isn’t testing?
  • Whole teams
  • Why Agile isn’t enough (and why it doesn’t work)
  • Why heroes are bad

  • Uncategorized

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