by Kiron Bondale | Apr 24, 2022 | Agile, communications, governance, project decision making, project management
Whether you call them work boards, Scrum boards or Kanban boards, visualizing work using physical boards or online tools is a common practice for both operational and project teams. Such boards can provide a number of benefits including: Helping team members to see...
by Kiron Bondale | Apr 17, 2022 | governance, improving project management, management failure, project decision making, project management
In the project management world, being a vigilante is rarely advisable. Managing a project without proper authorization is not keeping Gotham or your company safe. And the Commissioner Gordon of your organization is more likely to put you in Arkham Asylum than...
by Kiron Bondale | Mar 13, 2022 | improving project management, project decision making, project management, Project scheduling, Risk Management
There are three commonly referenced approaches for reducing schedule duration: crashing, fast tracking and scope reduction. Crashing is the addition of labor or equipment to effort-driven activities in the hopes of shortening their durations. Fast tracking involves...
by Kiron Bondale | Feb 20, 2022 | governance, improving project management, Process Peeves, project decision making, project management, Risk Management
Project management standards such as the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition state that contingency reserves, which are established to offset the cost or schedule impacts of realized identified risks, are considered part of the project budget and cost baseline. As the project...
by Kiron Bondale | Dec 5, 2021 | Agile, project decision making, project management, Tailoring
I frequently see questions asked in project management discussion groups about hybrid projects. As I wrote in last week’s article, projects themselves can’t be waterfall, agile, traditional or hybrid but how we approach them can be. But what does “hybrid” really mean?...
by Kiron Bondale | Nov 25, 2021 | Agile, Agile Project Management, governance, improving project management, project decision making, project management, Stakeholder analysis
The concept of tailoring has been referenced in all editions of the PMBOK® Guide but the topic starting receiving more coverage in the Sixth Edition and finally was given a full section in the most recent edition. But before we can start tailoring we need to answer...