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Recent Earned Value Posts of Interest
Glen Alleman posted on the difficulty (or otherwise) of the maths in EVM, and several of us commented. He followed that with an example in which the maths is very simple, which I quite liked as an introduction to Earned Value.
Marcin Niebudek wrote an article, in which… Read more
Speaking on Earned Value at NZ Computer Society Conference
I’ll be speaking at the New Zealand Computer Society’s 50th Anniversary Conference, on the topic of Earned Value Management.
I’m looking forward to being part of an interesting conference, and hopefully helping to lift the profile of EVM in New Zealand.
( The abstract’s reference… Read more
Added transcript to People Skills video
This week’s “People Skills for Nerds” post now includes a written transcript of the talk. (For those who, like me, prefer to read than to watch videos ;-)
People Skills for Nerds – a Summary Video
This video summarises they key points I aim to make in this blog, that people skills are:
- Important, and
- Learnable (with time and practice)
The video is an edited extract of my talk at AgileRoots 2009. For the benefit of people who, like me, prefer skim reading to… Read more
Converting to Wordpress
Regular visitors may notice the site looks a bit different. I am transitioning to Wordpress. Initially, all the old pages will be available both as Wordpress posts and at their old URLs. I will eventually redirect requests for the old ones to the new URLs instead.
By the way, this… Read more
Sorry about old comments
Most old comments, from before the conversion to WordPress, have unfortunately been lost. (Very sorry!!) I lost them when Haloscan (who I was using for comments) shut down their service. As it happens, there weren’t a large number of comments on any of the pages that used Halscan commenting, possibly… Read more
Does our intuition fail us?
Why do so many projects seem to be OK, but, when you get near the end, they turn out not to be OK after all? Everyone thought you were going to make the target date, but at the last minute… well, no you couldn’t.
I’d like to suggest an answer. … Read more
Agile Roots Presentations Online
Presentations from the Agile Roots conference are now online.
My full presentation is here, although sometime I hope to isolate the middle section (on workplace interpersonal skill) so it can be viewed as a stand-alone 15-min presentation. [Done] As it stands, the presentation is 30 minutes on
References from my Agile Roots presentation
At Agile Roots, I promised to post references for my talk “Better Agile Through Stealing”. Here are my faviourite references on the topics I talked about. For each of the books, the main link is to a “dead tree” version of the book, with a secondary link to… Read more
Speaking at Agile Roots
The Agile Roots conference is on, next month in Salt Lake City. If you haven’t checked out the conference web site, hurry over there now!
If you like this blog (and presumably you do, since you’re reading it ;-) I think you’ll love the conference. It’s a new… Read more