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• Project Managers Need to Think About Cloud Computing

  Whether software development or infrastructure, the manner in which cloud computing projects are delivered is different enough to require a slightly different approach to project management. So while the same elements exist on cloud computing projects Read More... Posted 15 June 2010 11:25 by simon.munro | 7 Comments Filed under: Project Management, Career, Cloud, cloud computing

• A Shortage of Technical Managers

  I was reminded this week of the common misconception that good developers are only interested in hardcore engineering and not in the delivery of business value. The additional assertion was made that in ‘the current climate’ that there is depressed demand Read More... Posted 18 September 2009 14:42 by simon.munro | 0 Comments Filed under: Delivery, Project Management, People, Career

• Back off posse, we’re ninja’s!

  There is a classic American Western movie cliché where the sheriff, in an attempt to catch an outlaw, calls for the organization of a ‘ posse ’.  By western movie definition, a posse seems to be a band of people that have just stumbled out of the Read More... Posted 29 July 2009 14:24 by simon.munro | 1 Comments Filed under: Delivery, Project Management, Agile, People, TDD

• Deferring Costs to Future Generations

  Our leaders are doing it – spending large sums of money now bailing out banks with the assumption that one day, when the recession is over, that there will be someone to pick up the tab. And as individuals we are doing the same thing – if my boiler were Read More... Posted 07 May 2009 14:55 by simon.munro | 6 Comments Filed under: Project Management, Agile, Career, TDD

• I Suck at Mushroom Management

  With all the gravity of putting things out onto the Internet and never being able to take them back, I have made my proclamation that I have a management weakness - an almost complete inability to be able to mushroom manage with any degree on competence Read More... Posted 20 October 2008 17:08 by simon.munro | 3 Comments Filed under: Delivery, Project Management, Agile

• Propensity for Agility

  If Agile projects are going to be successful and not degenerate into freefall painful projects an up-front assessment of the project environment and its ability to accept and cultivate agile methods is required. About ten years ago I worked with ObjectStore Read More... Posted 11 September 2008 14:14 by simon.munro | 0 Comments Filed under: Project Management, Agile

• Body Armor for Developers

  Developers see estimation skills as something that the more manager types need to know.  The up-all-night-hacking-code attitude seems to be at odds with something like estimating - which sounds too much like administration anyway.  Developers Read More... Posted 26 August 2008 21:40 by simon.munro | 2 Comments Filed under: Delivery, Estimating, Project Management