For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
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Waterfall, Agile, now “Sim”?
Posted on May 26, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
Dan Woods in Forbes (here) highlights one of the emerging trends in development: user-interface simulation. This takes agile development a step further, because… [b]y creating a simulation of the user experience, instead of a full-working version, a team can avoid a large amount of work but still get a full test that can confirm requirements. [...]
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PM Quote of the Day — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.
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CIO job rotation and commitment to IT value
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
Great interview by Linda Tucci at searchCIO.com (here) with Richard R. “Rick” Roy, CIO at CUNA Mutual Group about his experiences as a line manager and how they’ve transformed his IT leadership approach. This passage on a shared sense of urgency struck me: I think the other thing in operations is the sense of urgency. [...]
Filed under: IT special interests, Leadership, Organizational Change Management, IT Strategy | Tagged: Leadership and strategic planning, CIO career development and career paths, IT project management and portfolio management, Enterprise application development, Web 2.0 applications, Linda Tucci, Rick Roy, CUNA Mutual | 5 Comments »
PM Quote of the Day — Benjamin Franklin
Posted on May 21, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. Update: Who exactly is this Benjamin “Frankling“? Sorry for the typo…
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More on stage gates and project reviews
Posted on May 21, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
Per an earlier post (here), it is important to ask how to ensure that stage gates — and project reviews for that matter — are relevant to the project at hand. It’s pretty simple IMO. Make sure that the stage gates match the project phase. It is amazing how many gate reviews are conducted with a [...]
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PM Quote of the Day — Albert Einstein
Posted on May 20, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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The pleasures of post hoc reasoning
Posted on May 20, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
Niall Ferguson had an excellent short column on the financial crisis in this past Sunday’s The New York Times Magazine (here). I liked the piece, especially where Ferguson punctures some of the conventional wisdom about regulation vs. de-regulation. I appreciated Ferguson’s reminder that we have to be very careful when drawing conclusions, especially when the [...]
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PM Quote of the Day — Galileo Galilei
Posted on May 19, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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PM Quote of the Day — Benjamin Franklin
Posted on May 19, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
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