Project Manager Definitions from Sedition.com The important ones: scope creep hostile feature negotiation. slippage retaliation. …and the scary events of a software project. Some of the key scary elements of a software project: Management has renamed its Waterfall process to Agile Waterfall Your eldest team member references Martin Fowler as a ’snot-nosed punk’ The SCRUM... Continue reading →

On the InfoQ site today I’ve taken a listen to the “Agile Styles: Lean and DSDM” by Jean Tabaka. DSDM was introduced by a group in Britain. Jean gives a decription of where it came from. Then the meat of the topic is brought up. DSDM = Dynamic System Development Method Jean goes on to... Continue reading →

I’ve been doing some CAB & MVP/C work for almost a year now on and off. With that I’ve gone digging for a lot of related topics. One blog that I stumble onto regularly, and also have book marked now, is Jeremy Miller’s Blog. Recently while digging through his blog I came upon the entry... Continue reading →

October 2003 I sat one day, arriving a few minutes early, at 7:48am. I’d spent the last few days tearing through tons of code and schema designs. I finally was at a point where the product was working. I looked across to my fellow associates’ seats and smiled. Today I was proud that I would... Continue reading →

One of the things I really got ingrained in my habit while working at Bank of America was the respect of other people’s time. Especially in fast moving projects this is a very important thing to practice. While working at BoA one could literally be let go if they did not respect other people’s time... Continue reading →