Imma be really blunt here: any team that can't resolve these types of issues shouldn't be doing agile. I don't mean that in a critical way - I mean that you will be much happier using some different sort of development framework - of whcih there are dozens if not hundreds. Agile is really simple ... for teams that are already good at working in an agile way. Most of these issues are readily resolvable within the team and the rest through facilitation of 1-up management and have nothing at all to do with agile. They can be solved if…

Do you remember the defining moments in your career? Those moments that you look back on and say: “it all changed here”.

I had one of those moments on Monday, October 1st 2012, at around 09:15 am in Boston, MA, and it changed my approach to managing software projects forever.

By profession, I am a consulting IT project manager. Back in 2012, I was working at a large Telco in Sydney Australia and managing several iOS and Android app development projects.

I wanted to get a more in-depth understanding of the app ecosystem and software commercialisation and found a conference…

How do we improve our conception and practice of project management? I don’t mean project management in the PMI sense. I mean, a broad organised approach to solving problems and enabling new outcomes.

There are many points of issue and problem in the various spheres of project management. But analysing and discussing them ends up down some rat-hole of practice and technique. Or vested choices and commitments hijack the discussion. We have made no real progress based on the “traditional” vs “agile” wars. Nor have the arguments between different branded methodologies been very productive.

So it’s time to take a…