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Dirty Consultant Tricks – Leaky Faucet of Billable Hours
The leaky faucet, the sieve, the bleeding of billable hours – called different things in different settings they refer to the same concept, a consulting/ contracting company or resource who piles up time and material hours. It’s also one of three dirty consulting tricks I’ve observed first hand in the last few years. The irony […]
Meaningful Work – Busy Work
September 27, 2012 by Dave Kohrell
Meaningful Work versus Busy Work was the central theme of a presentation and discussion I shared with the PMI Heartland Professional Development Day on September 17, 2012. The title was “Undercover Agile”. The premise was sorting through what’s meaningful and busy work in daily project management practice. Once sorted, high performance organizations and project managers focus […]
Stand up meetings – not just for software or Agile anymore
February 20, 2012 by Dave Kohrell
Stand up. Sit down. Which is better for the team, productivity, your company? The trend is stand up for a short burst of action and accountability among all types of business teams. A hall-mark of rapid software development (1990’s) and Agile (manifesto in 2001 onward) the stand up meeting has progressed rapidly beyond software, to […]
Communication – Progressive Elaboration and Progressive Communication
January 28, 2011 by Dave Kohrell
The essential concept of progressive elaboration is that organizations, teams, and people do not have to have all the pieces and parts fully known before beginning. Don’t get me wrong, having details is important, but not for everyone. This approach fits very well with the change driven methodologies of Agile and Lean Software Development. Communication […]
Virtual Teams – Conflict Resolution, Monitor
January 24, 2011 by Dave Kohrell
The stage is set. Successful conflict resolution now depends on actively monitoring the three essential legs – risk, environment and team. Update the conflict elements on a weekly basis. If conflict does surface, determine the threshold for engaging the contingency plan and corrective action. Another effective way to monitor conflict is to talk about it. […]
2010 in review
January 2, 2011 by tapuniversity
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was […]
Risk from a Business Analysis Perspective
December 29, 2010 by Dave Kohrell
The International Institute of Business Analysis was founded just a few years ago in 2003. In terms of professional associations it’s a new kid on the block. Yet in a short time it’s made a profound impact on the discipline and profession of business analysis. One success factor of The IIBA for making a swift […]
Business Analysis Plans
October 12, 2009 by tapuniversity
The Business Analysis Plan is the roadmap that guides all later business analysis tasks. It describes the scope of the work, which may include a Work Breakdown Structure, and it may contain an Activity List with estimates for these activities. How this plan may be altered during the course of the project should also be […]
Stakeholder Management Strategy
June 16, 2009 by tapuniversity
A Stakeholder Management Strategy is a document used by project managers to outline a plan to increase support and minimize obstruction from the project stakeholders. This document is created through the Identify Stakeholders process, which is one of the 42 project management processes described in the fourth edition PMBOK®. The Stakeholder Management Strategy is […]
Identify Stakeholders Process
February 19, 2009 by tapuniversity
Identify Stakeholders is one of the 42 project management processes outlined in the fourth edition PMBOK®. It’s new to the fourth edition. Identify Stakeholders is categorized as one of the five Communication knowledge area processes, and one of the two Initiating process group processes. The purpose of this process is twofold—first, discover the people and […]
Project Stakeholders
February 13, 2009 by tapuniversity
A project stakeholder is a person or organization that is actively involved in the project, or whose interests are affected by the project. They have an interest (stake) in the project. If a stakeholder benefits from the success of the project, they are a positive stakeholder; whereas if a stakeholder benefits from the failure of […]
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October 5, 2012 by Dave Kohrell
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