A year ago, during the startup of a new project, I wrote a series about scrum and the context around a scrum project. The project is now can finished and it’s time for a retrospective, evaluating what worked well and what didn’t. The major impression is that the project and the way we used scrum… Continue reading Scrum Series Retrospective
Tag: Project Management
Start a Scrum Project with Sprint 0
When starting up a scrum project, I often use a sprint 0 to get started. The purpose of sprint 0 is to get all the prerequisites for the first sprint planning in place. The need for a sprint 0 probably varies across different businesses. I’m working as a consultant which means that at the start… Continue reading Start a Scrum Project with Sprint 0
The Project Counter-Sabotage Handbook
A project saboteur is a person doing his/her best to sink a project and cause it to fail through a variety of methods. Effective counter sabotage to identify and deal with project saboteurs as early as possible is a key success factor to any large project because there will always be a saboteur somewhere… Know… Continue reading The Project Counter-Sabotage Handbook
Project Saboteur Taxonomy
While the methods of project saboteurs are similar, any project in the wild may encounter very different kinds of saboteurs. The Project Saboteur Taxonomy is an attempt to shed some light on the saboteurs in the wild. Saboteur Types This taxonomy contains five types. I am sure that there are plenty other types – please… Continue reading Project Saboteur Taxonomy
The Project Saboteur’s Handbook
There are many ways to sabotage a project. Recognizing them is the first crucial step to counter them. In this brief handbook I will present a number of ways of sabotage that I have encountered in various projects. This post is the saboteur’s handbook. The countermeasures will be saved for another post. Enough of introduction.… Continue reading The Project Saboteur’s Handbook