Unable to gain the participation of a key person for a project retrospective? A retrospective, sometime called a post-mortem or lessons learned session, is an event designed to discover and preserve the aspects of a project that were managed well; and discover and change the aspects that weren't. I consider this event a fundamental feedback … [Read more...]
A Riddle about Projects
All of us have experience with projects. In my experience, complex project never work exactly as planned. What is the first thing about a project that must be adapted when things aren't working as planned? Answer, the story about the project. For instance, when a software project is about to miss a milestone, you may hear a story about testing … [Read more...]