Many organisations use "Projects" as the tool for enabling change and realising benefits within their Organisation. It seems to be the "silver bullet" that will solve all of the organisation's proble...
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Changing Enterprise Through Projects. Are Projects Evil?
Written by Darko Bohinc 10/05/10Wellington APN presentation: Agile – it works!
Written by Desiree Purvis 10/03/10Ex-Frondie Ceedee Doyle, in conjunction with the Wellington chapter of the Agile Professionals Network, will be presenting her experiences of using Agile techniques on a real-life project. Using the...
Gate Keepers and Enablers
Written by Andrew Bennett 10/09/09Do your stakeholders treat your project like an unruly teenager, or like a newborn baby? In any endeavour you come across those who have some level of control over what you are trying to achieve. ...
The “Agile landscape” presentation, and how it went down at PMI
Written by Carolyn Berridge 26/05/09I talked to the Auckland branch of PMI last week about Agile. I'd been asked to provide a bit of an overview about what people mean when they say "we're doing Agile", and how Agile practices work wi...
Scrum 101 – taking it from theory to practice
Written by Carolyn Berridge 12/05/09I'm talking at the Agile Professionals Network in Auckland tonight about Scrum. It's an introductory session for people who haven't had a chance to experience Scrum yet, so I'm taking a very simple ...
Testing has evolved to survive the ROI test
Written by Kieron Horide-Hobley 06/05/09Some of you may be aware that 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work On The Origin Of The Species. Looking back o...
Movies, not parties – why Agile works for software projects
Written by Carolyn Berridge 30/04/09If Peter Jackson ever gets sick of making movies, he'd make an awesome software project sponsor. Probably not so great at running a data-centre move, though. I've been watching the Lord of the Ri...
Is your business case still valid? When did you last check?
Written by Carolyn Berridge 02/03/09You may have noticed that the economy has changed a wee bit recently. Little things, like the NZ dollar plunging to a six-year low against the greenback, redundancies far and wide (hey, at least Vod...