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AGILE PROJECT LEADERSHIP

Questions from the Field

by Kent McDonald

Because I often find myself introducing agile principles to project managers and business analysts, I was recently asked to facilitate a couple of roundtable discussions surrounding the idea of Agile Project Leadership for the local PMI chapter. As part of those discussions I asked the participants to indicate [...]

SCRAPPY PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management Dialogues with ATTITUDE!

by Kimberly M. Wiefling, M.S.
This Month’s Featured Noggin’ Floggin’:
Agile Methodologies: Age-old Ideas in Fancy New Clothes

This summer I spent 35 days working in Japan, and the journey was chock full of surprises and disasters, personal and otherwise. Not only did my brand new computer fail mysteriously mid-trip (brand name [...]

Many organizations have an IT role called analyst, and will often differentiate between various types:

Requirements analysts who are responsible for requirements elicitation

Systems analysts who are responsible for analyzing the requirements to determine the system needs to fulfill those requirements

Business analysts who are responsible for understanding the business and making recommendations for improvement

Business system analysts whose [...]