Project Lifecycle in Teamed.io

In addition to being a hands-on programmer, I’m also co-founder and CTO of Teamed.io, a custom software development company. I…

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20 (Or So) Things Managers Should Stop Saying To Engineers

This post is a direct reply to an article I recently read with title : “20 things engineers should stop…

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Cost, Value & Investment: How Much Will This Project Cost? Part 2

This post is continued from Cost, Value & Investment: How Much Will This Project Cost, Part 1 We’ve established that…

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The Measure Of Success

What makes a successful project? Waterfall project management tells us it’s about meeting scope, time and cost goals. Do these…

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Cost, Value & Investment: How Much Will This Project Cost? Part 1

I’ve said before that you cannot use capacity planning for the project portfolio. I also said that managers often want…

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Managers Manage Ambiguity

I was thinking about the Glen Alleman’s post, All Things Project Are Probabilistic. In it, he says, Management is Prediction…

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Failed! You get what you deserve!

Consider this, few projects fail because of unusual or unforeseen problems.  If you are trying to go so fast that…

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Inconvenient truths of project Status reporting

Long time readers of this blog may recall that I subscribe to the high-brow MIT Sloan Management Review. They may…

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Estimation and the Sunk Cost Fallacy

I’m not a fan of using schedule or cost estimate as a way to value the projects in your project…

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