Recent Posts Tagged With 'project management'

• Gemba Kaizen

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 14:11 in Management, productivity, project management

  Preview * Gemba (現場) in Japanese means “the actual place” or “the real place” * Kaizen (改善) in Japanese means “improvement” In business, Gemba refers to the place where value is created and the general noti...

• Scrum and Your Mother-In-Law

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 12:22 in people, project management, scrum, agile, software management

  Ken Schwaber was quoted giving this mind-blowing Scrum / mother-in-law allegory: “imagine that your mother-in-law believed her daughter could do better… and then imagine that she moved in with you… that’s what Scrum is like”...

• Cogito Ergo Sum Pragmaticus

  Posted on Monday November 10th, 2008 at 14:09 in Management, leadership, project management

  “Cogito Ergo Sum Pragmaticus” (= I think, therefore I am Pragmatic | I am not a native latin speaker but the sound felt right ;) I will dare to claim that eating restrictions and drinking contradictions for breakfast* is one of the f...

• Project Management Tips

  Posted on Saturday October 25th, 2008 at 13:43 in leadership, project management, pmo, software management

  “All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Jerry Madden retired from NASA in 1995 as Associate Director of Flight Projects at Goddard Space Flight Center. During his distinguished 37-year career, he have c...

• Managing Engineers is like Herding Cats

  Posted on Saturday October 4th, 2008 at 13:01 in people, development, Management, leadership, project management, peopleware, software management, delver

  When “The Moscow Cats Theater” came to New York, the Russian clown Yuri Kuklachev was interviewed:  “the secret of training them is realizing that you can’t force cats to do anything [...] If the cat likes to sit you can̵...