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Changing Enterprise Through Projects. Are Projects Evil?

Posted by Darko Bohinc on May 10th, 2010

Many organisations use "Projects" as the tool for enabling change and realising benefits within their Organisation. It seems to be the "silver bullet" that will solve all of the organisation's proble

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Wellington APN presentation: Agile – it works!

Posted by Desiree Purvis on March 10th, 2010

Ex-Frondie Ceedee Doyle, in conjunction with the Wellington chapter of the Agile Professionals Network, will be presenting her experiences of using Agile techniques on a real-life project.  Using the

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Gate Keepers and Enablers

Posted by Andrew Bennett on September 10th, 2009

Do your stakeholders treat your project like an unruly teenager, or like a newborn baby? In any endeavour you come across those who have some level of control over what you are trying to achieve.

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The “Agile landscape” presentation, and how it went down at PMI

Posted by Carolyn Sanders on May 26th, 2009

I talked to the Auckland branch of PMI last week about Agile.  I'd been asked to provide a bit of an overview about what people mean when they say "we're doing Agile", and how Agile practices work wi

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Scrum 101 – taking it from theory to practice

Posted by Carolyn Sanders on May 12th, 2009

I'm talking at the Agile Professionals Network in Auckland tonight about Scrum.  It's an introductory session for people who haven't had a chance to experience Scrum yet, so I'm taking a very simple

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Testing has evolved to survive the ROI test

Posted by Kieron Horide-Hobley on May 6th, 2009

Some of you may be aware that 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work On The Origin Of The Species. Looking back o

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Movies, not parties – why Agile works for software projects

Posted by Carolyn Sanders on April 30th, 2009

If Peter Jackson ever gets sick of making movies, he'd make an awesome software project sponsor.  Probably not so great at running a data-centre move, though. I've been watching the Lord of the Ri

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Is your business case still valid? When did you last check?

Posted by Carolyn Sanders on March 2nd, 2009

You may have noticed that the economy has changed a wee bit recently.  Little things, like the NZ dollar plunging to a six-year low against the greenback, redundancies far and wide (hey, at least Vod

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