Project Management

Benchmark: Business Intelligence, BigData, and Analytic Project Success

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Based upon our Decision Support Project Survey, we have created a template for a benchmark comparison that can be used to share best practices or identify areas of improvement.  The survey analyzed 78 projects for critical success criteria and factors and created a classification model. The classification model has been documented and peer reviewed by… Continue reading Benchmark: Business Intelligence, BigData, and Analytic Project Success

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Survey Results: BI, BigData, & Analytic Project Success

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The aim of the research was to understand the success criteria for decision support projects and what influences the performance of those projects. “Decision support projects are implementation projects that deliver data, analytical models, analytical competence, or all three, for unstructured decision-making and problem-solving. They include subspecialties such as big data, advanced analytics, business intelligence,… Continue reading Survey Results: BI, BigData, & Analytic Project Success

Project Management

Can we Motivate you to Share your Knowledge?

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Knowledge Management (KM) implies creating, using, sharing and managing the knowledge of people from an organization. Some of the benefits of supporting the processes of KM are clear and well-known. The PMBOK(R) Guide 6th edition adds the chapter 4.4.2.  ‘Manage Project Knowledge: Tools and Techniques’ in recognition of KM importance. KM is about people, processes… Continue reading Can we Motivate you to Share your Knowledge?

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About Team Members Types and Personalities in Agile Projects

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We have written about how the agile coach deals with the different types of team members observing and determining the right level of support and guidance to give. Based on a few past projects, we could identify several team member personalities and behaviors that have a positive and negative impact on the execution of the… Continue reading About Team Members Types and Personalities in Agile Projects

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My Visualization Tips – Keys to Creative Visualization in all Project Management Phases

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In the last months, we have been writing about Visualization in projects on our blog. We have shared a few tips and our experience in making projects v i s u a l. We covered not only project data in the form of charts and diagrams, but also project relevant information such as requirements, expectations,… Continue reading My Visualization Tips – Keys to Creative Visualization in all Project Management Phases

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Free ‘Going Agile’ ePub for PM, BigData, Analytic or BI Survey Input by Oct., 1st

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I am doing some research to investigate success from a project perspective of the different types of decision support projects and their contribution to organizational performance. Join the effort and get a free ‘Going Agile Project Management Practices Second Edition’ ePub or Kindle book (worth 32 USD on amazon). Project managers, agile coaches, project team… Continue reading Free ‘Going Agile’ ePub for PM, BigData, Analytic or BI Survey Input by Oct., 1st

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Building a Team with Collaborative Events

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The agile coach has the responsibility to build the team into a self-organizing unit that can make its own decisions and resolve its own conflicts as well as collaborate as a team to deliver the product. Building a team is much more than building a working group. ‘Going Agile – Project Management Practices’ says the… Continue reading Building a Team with Collaborative Events

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Visualization in Projects – User Roles and Personas

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Agile methodologies suggest the use of user stories that are specific to a role. Personas are one way of representing these roles. User Story As Gloria J. Miller writes in ‘Going Agile – Project Management Practices’ the format for user’s story should include a title and the information on the role of the user, the… Continue reading Visualization in Projects – User Roles and Personas