Posts by: Kenneth van Rumste
IPMA-be is a nonprofit organization that unites project-, program-, portfolio managers and PMO managers and officers.
Proudly, we invite you, your management and your project related employees (project-, program-, portfolio managers and PMO managers and officers) to witness the birth of the International Project Management Association, Belgium (IPMA-be) of [...]
Everybody has a bucket list, a list of all things you want to do before you die, and so do I.
A few of the things for me on that list are:
go scuba diving on the Maldives become a father, preferably a good one buy a motorcycle when getting a midlife crisis write [...]
Take a look at this great initiative!
Eric Sink wrote a book on Version control and gives copies away for free. And this time not only an e-book version, but a real paper version!!!
So what is this book about?
This book uses practical examples to explain version control with both centralized and decentralized [...]
Over the past decade or so we’ve seen important new ideas added to the mix of software design practices to help us produce better software. Design Patterns help us capture the design solutions and reveal a rationale for using them. Refactoring allows us to improve system design after the code is written.
Agile methods—and [...]
Here is a great video on Agile and Kanban in particular as well as some of the tools to use.
What can we remember from these best practices?
First thing to remember is that Kaizen is a cool Japaneze word
Are there good tools for Kanban?
Jira with Greenhopper plugin is very [...]
Earned value management (EVM) is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress in an objective manner. EVM has the ability to combine measurements of scope, schedule, and cost in a single integrated system. Earned Value Management is notable for its ability to provide accurate forecasts of project performance [...]
I’ve been reading again… this time it’s The Business Value of Agile Software Methods: Maximizing ROI with Just-in-Time Processes and Documentation by David F. Rico, Hasan H. Sayani and Saya -J. Ross Publishing © 2009 (Amazon)
What is the business value of agile methods? That is the question what the book I’ve been reading is [...]
It is always hard to find good talks on how an implementation was done of a new tool or methodologies.
In case of Scrum I found this one on Eve, a video game for which the developers changed to Scrum.
Eve Online is a video game by CCP Games. It is a player-driven persistent-world MMORPG [...]
I’ve done a training at IBM education and received a certificate for following this course.
Of course, the value of this certificate can be questioned, but I still think it is a good thing to have. If you have been sleeping in class, you would also have received this certificate, but in case your interest [...]
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