To quote Ken Schwaber: "The minimum plan necessary to start a Scrum project consists of a vision and a Product Backlog. The vision describes why the project is being undertaken and what the desired end state is." (Schwaber 2004, p. 68). This is great, it seems so simple, a vision of what you want to build and a list of stuff that is needed to achieve that vision. Of course, [Continue Reading]
How Do I Know What I Know – Project Assumptions Management
Just the other day I was asked my opinion on RAID logs. I had to admit that “RAID” was a project management acronym I had not heard of. Checking the PMBOK Guide turned up nothing. I did find entries on some of the big PM sites via search. The thing is a Risk, Assumption, Issue, and Dependency log, for those of you hadn’t heard of a RAID log either. Apparently, some [Continue Reading]