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Test Driven Development (TDD) – An Instrument to Deliver Projects More Efficiently
By Ambadapudi Sridhara Murthy
Projects have been moving at a very rapid pace since the past ten years and everyone has been talking about quicker delivery, early dispatch of product and short project completion schedules. While projects have been completed and the respective products have […]

Overworking Can Kill You
By Patricia Goh
Just this year in March, a 26 year old factory worker abruptly died after working for 12 hours every single day assembling Apple iPhones. Two years ago, a 24 year old advertising employee from China suffered a sudden cardiac arrest at his desk and died, having working overtime the month […]

Is Your Program Board a Help or a Hindrance?
By Peter Osborne
Best practice in program management states that ‘Successful delivery needs an engaged senior management team as part of the Program Board’. But as someone tasked with the responsibility for delivering major change, how do you avoid your Program Board operating as a talking-shop, or worse, […]

Building a PMO: Four Key Considerations
By Kristyn Medeiros
Whether your PMO is brand new or has been around for years, the vision is one of the key components. Without it, each person is beating to their own drum and moving in a different direction. Powerful and guiding, a clear vision will align everyone to make sure […]

The Project Charter: A Concise Definition
By Jeremy Siegel, Northwest University
The project charter is constantly the subject of misinterpretation by many in the PM realm. Below is an accurate, concise, and clear definition of the project charter. The importance of the below definition is that it highlights the authority of the project charter especially when it […]

AIM for Life Balance
By Sally Stanleigh
Scientists are warning us that our busy lives are making us sick and costing our employers and health care systems billions of dollars. Achieving life balance is a worthy goal to AIM for; it requires us to apply positive attitude, involvement and meaning into our busy lives.
More and more studies […]

The Product Roadmap is Not the Project Portfolio
By Johanna Rothman
I keep seeing talks and arguments about how the portfolio team should manage the epics for a program. That conflates the issue of project portfolio management and product management.
Several potential teams affect each project (or program).
Figure 1: Centers and Value
Starting at the right side of this […]

A Team’s Lack of Creativity
By Karen J Goold
When you’re asked to brainstorm some new ideas, who do you invite to the meeting? Are you inviting like-minded individuals, those you may have worked with before or you seem to get along with?
This may seem like a good idea, but you could be missing out on some […]

How To Exploit and Enhance Project Opportunities
By Harry Hall
My father Royce Charon Hall was born on October 27, 1924 in Ideal, Georgia. The only problem was his living conditions were far from ideal. He grew up plowing barefoot behind a mule. Granddaddy and Grandmama Hall provided their children with food and clothes, but there wasn’t […]

User Stories and Use Cases Go Hand-in-Hand
By Ben Snyder, CEO of Systemation
Whether it’s a software project or a marketing project, all projects have something to deliver. And all projects have users—people who will interact with that end solution, product, service, or other result you deliver. To define the requirements and get agreement on the deliverables, […]