http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2006/10/what-would-you-like-in-a-3-hour-pm-workshop.html Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:47:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2006/10/what-would-you-like-in-a-3-hour-pm-workshop.html/comment-page-1#comment-454 Asher Sterkin Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:22:39 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8029#comment-454 Timeboxing seems to be a natural canidate. We never have enough time (as we never have enough money :-) and in fact it doesn't matter if it's three hours, days, months or years. If we take Tom DeMarco seriously we have to be prepared to be at the best 20% wrong with all our estimations. Preparing an initial wish list, prioritizing, budgeting (45 minutes timebox for each lesson), descoping, and learning (5 minutes retrospective after each lesson) - all these things you can teach then in a form of interactve planning of your workshop. This planning game will obviously be the first (45 mins or even less) timebox. Timeboxing seems to be a natural canidate. We never have enough time (as we never have enough money and in fact it doesn’t matter if it’s three hours, days, months or years. If we take Tom DeMarco seriously we have to be prepared to be at the best 20% wrong with all our estimations. Preparing an initial wish list, prioritizing, budgeting (45 minutes timebox for each lesson), descoping, and learning (5 minutes retrospective after each lesson) - all these things you can teach then in a form of interactve planning of your workshop. This planning game will obviously be the first (45 mins or even less) timebox.

]]> http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2006/10/what-would-you-like-in-a-3-hour-pm-workshop.html/comment-page-1#comment-455 James Ward Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:44:49 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8029#comment-455 One of the most interesting topics I've seen on this site is your analysis of which methodology to choose for a project. I would like to explore your criteria and reasoning for choosing waterfall, iterative, agile, etc., and what some of the benefits or pitfalls might be. One of the most interesting topics I’ve seen on this site is your analysis of which methodology to choose for a project. I would like to explore your criteria and reasoning for choosing waterfall, iterative, agile, etc., and what some of the benefits or pitfalls might be.

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