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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Creating a product backlog isn’t an easy thing to do and alot of people have questions on how they should do it or what they should keep in mind.
One of the things you can do is keep these two words in mind: SMART and CUTFIT. They both stand for some interesting rules to keep [...]
I got the opportunity to study project management methodologies like Prince 2 and RUP. I was also given an introduction in Scrum and, as I was a developer for several years, see the potential of this great framework for software development teams.
I’m currently not working in a software development firm, but want to try [...]
Hi,
I’ve been creating some design the last months and here is one more that I created for a friend of mine.
Joris De Ryck is a contractor located in Londerzeel, Belgium focusing on: saintairy installations, heating installations, sun boilers.
Visit his site www.jorisderyck.be and take a look at the result.
The texts and [...]
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