Many companies have adopted an agile methodology for their projects. They may have adopted a specific agile methodology such as Scrum or introduced a hybrid model with some topics managed using an agile methodology or agile practices. Therefore, we can announce that pure waterfall projects are dead! While there are challenges, issues, and problems in… Continue reading Waterfall is Dead. Long Live Agile!
Serious games can help manage some challenges in transitioning from traditional/waterfall projects to agile projects. For example, in a traditional project, the scope is known up-front and the project budget is fixed, so the expectation is that all product features will be delivered within that known budget. The budget and time may be fixed in… Continue reading Innovation Games and the Agile-Budget-Problem
The McDonald’s Monopoly game promotion is a form of gamification. I am unsure of their formally stated goal, but it is probably to make more money. The behaviors experienced drive people who want fast food to consider McDonald’s; it gets customers to buy certain food combinations and to return to McDonald’s as often as possible.… Continue reading Games Drive Behavior: Gamification and Serious Games
In 2022 we were managing multiple projects, published three articles on artificial intelligence (AI), and moved forward with our serious game—The Project Win Game™. Projects Our project work was very interesting, fulfilling, and challenging in 2022. We had very diverse multi-national, multi-disciplinary teams. In one project, we had a good laugh comparing United States and… Continue reading This was maxmetrics 2022
How do artificial intelligence (AI) projects differ from other projects based on the harms, damages, and losses they can impose on individuals, society, and the environment? Is it necessary to engage developers, operators, and representatives of passive stakeholders to achieve moral, ethical, and sustainable development? Read more about all these very interesting questions on Gloria… Continue reading ‘Stakeholder Roles in Artificial Intelligence Projects’ – Article Published on Project Leadership and Society – by Gloria J. Miller
An emerging topic in artificial intelligence (AI) projects is project teams’ responsibilities for developing ethical AI systems. Consequently, there are many ethical guidelines and principles that project teams should take into consideration. For example, Jobin, Ienca, and Vayena performed a content analysis of 84 AI ethical guidelines. 84. Ryan and Stahl translated those guidelines into… Continue reading The intersection between project success factors and AI ethical principles
Europeans take their vacations very seriously. They plan them weeks and months in advance. In Germany: People with or without children plan vacations around the published school holidays. People with children plan to spend time with their families, usually away somewhere, on vacation; people without children plan their vacations to avoid those people on vacation… Continue reading Projects and Holiday Season in Europe
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic response, we wrote about 100% distributed working. Since then, we went through a phase of removing COVID restrictions, and now we are in the COVID denial phase. Each of these phases has a different effect on our projects. Impacts of COVID in the different phases During the COVID… Continue reading Managing Projects During this COVID Denial Phase
Gloria J. Miller has been named a Distinguished Contributor to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, IEEE News Release. The IEEE Distinguished Contributor Program “… awardees have demonstrated technical achievements and contributions that exemplify our goal of leading the global technical community and contributing to the development and application of technology… Continue reading Gloria J. Miller Named as IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors
Gloria J. Miller has a book chapter published by Springer entitled Artificial Intelligence Project Success Factors—Beyond the Ethical Principles in “Information Technology for Management: Business and Social Issues”. It details her paper that was presented at the FedCSIS 2021 conference in September 2021. The individual chapter is available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution… Continue reading #AI Project Success — Book Chapter Published