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PMI Agile CoP Retrospective
When you think of spending a Saturday afternoon among friends and colleagues, do you picture yourself sitting in front of your computer, collaborating for three hours on a web-based tool and discussing...
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Zombie Manifesto
Who would have thought that a year after publishing Zombie Project Management that I would be asked to brief a Federal Agency (which is not to be named at this time) on the topic. As part of my...
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How David Bland helped my PMI ACP workshop
After each PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) workshop that I offer, I refine the format to make it better. I learn some new content from the ACP Support team at the PMI Agile Community of...
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Measuring Team Emotion
Too many times, companies focus too much attention on metrics like Team Performance and Team Efficiency, while ignoring metrics like Team Emotion or Happiness. This last week, I worked with a company...
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ACP Community Guide vs AgileBOK
The Community Guide of the PMI-ACP (login required) is an initiative of the PMI Agile Community of Practice to provide ongoing support for the PMI-ACP agile certification. PMI Today recently...
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Free Agile PDU List
I was juggling some ideas on how I could list some free “Agile” PMI-ACP or PDUs for people. I think there is a crazy amount of free resources for PMP PDUs. Because of that, I think there needs to be...
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PMI Eating its Own Dogfood
I am happy to report that the PMI-ACP Community Guide project is off and running. Each day, I see new content being added. I wonder if this is how Jimmy Wales felt in the early days of Wikipedia....
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Epics, User Stories and Tasks
I was working with a client this last week and I overheard one team member trying to explain the difference between Epics, User Stories, and Tasks. He finally offered an analogy. The Analogy Epics are...
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Hawthorne Effect Coaching Dilemma
The Hawthorne Effect is something I wrote about over a year ago. Previously as a Project Management Adviser and now as an Enterprise Agile Coach, I’ve seen it numerous times. To all those currently...
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What is Agile, anyway?
The parable Ever heard the story about the blind men and an elephant? In various versions of the tale, a group of blind men touch an elephant. Each man feels a different part, but only one part, such...
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Agile Project Leader Job
Some Just Don’t Get It I’ve seen way too many job postings in the last year, asking for Agile Project Managers. These postings are basically Project Manager positions with some Agile language thrown...
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Retrospective Shades of Gray
The Retrospective I love retrospectives. It doesn’t matter if it’s an informal process that occurs naturally as team members interact or it is a formal process that occurs at the end of a meeting, an...
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PMI-ACP Numbers So Far
Tomorrow, the June 2012 edition of PMI Today will be formally available. Before that happens, I wanted to give a progress report on the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner numbers. Since the...
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What is Fist of Five?
Why It doesn’t matter if I’m teaching a class or coaching a team. When the moment comes, I need a quick way for a team to come to a decision. Why should the team decide and not me? From the seven...
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Oh the Places You’ll Go!
My nephew just graduated from college. As I enjoyed a bottle of “Graduation Ale” home brew, at his graduation party, I noticed a quote from Dr. Seuss printed on the label. This quote is applicable to...
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How my Zombie PM Book Survived
It’s been over a year since I published my book, Zombie Project Management, to the Amazon Kindle store. It was fun writing it and discovering the process of publishing a book. So, you can image my...
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Sneetches and Agile Training
This morning I read a tweet offering a 100% guarantee to pass the corresponding Agile exam. Offering such a guarantee is such BS and insulting to our craft. Reading the tweet sounded something right...
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15 Days
Only 15 more days Will the world end early? Will the zombie apocalypse begin? What will happen? Image Source: Pictofigo Related posts: Black Friday & More How my Zombie PM Book Survived PDCA and...
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Back from the Islands
The 2012 Huether Island Vacation has come and gone. To use it as an opportunity to grow, I wanted to do things outside my comfort zone. What qualifies? Let’s start with everything that has anything...
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New PMI Member Benefits
Remember the American Express slogan, Membership Has Its Privileges? Well, PMI is working on providing more membership privileges…and benefits for your $129 a year membership dues. What would you think...
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