Project Management and Change Articles

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Andre Malowney writing at a desk, working through project management reference texts and printed process diagrams

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Choosing a Supplier: Cheapest Is Not the Same as Best

A price well below the others is information rather than a bargain. The useful question is what the bidder has understood, or decided to leave out, that the others have not.

Make or Buy? How to Decide Before Procurement Begins

The comparison is rarely price against price. It is a known internal cost against a quoted external one, and the two have been prepared on completely different bases.

Rolling Wave Planning: Plan Enough, Not Everything

Detail is deferred; commitment is not. The technique earns its keep only when the re-planning points are named in advance and actually happen.

MVP vs Prototype vs Increment

Three words used interchangeably for three different things. The expensive confusion is the prototype that goes live because somebody called it a minimum viable product.

Definition of Done vs Acceptance Criteria

One says what this particular item must do. The other says what finished means for everything the team produces. Projects need both, and usually have one.

Retrospectives That Lead to Change

Twenty-six meetings and three changes is the normal ratio. The fix is not a better format; it is one change, owned by a name, finished before the next one.