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

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Conflict Is Not Always a Problem

A project where nobody disagrees is not a well-run project. It is a project whose disagreements are being held somewhere you cannot see them.

Estimate Resources: People, Equipment and Capacity

The question arrives as how many people do you need. The honest answer starts somewhere else, with what the work is and what has to be true for it to happen.

Plan Scope Management Before You Start Collecting Requirements

Collecting requirements without agreeing the rules first produces a great deal of material and no way to decide anything with it. The rules take an afternoon.

Kanban vs Scrum: When Flow Beats Sprints

The choice is decided by how the work arrives, not by how mature a team is. Where demand lands daily and cannot wait a fortnight, a sprint is the wrong container.

Daily Stand-ups: Coordination Tool or Status Meeting?

If the meeting would run perfectly well without the project manager in it, it is doing its job. If it would collapse, it has quietly become something else.

Motivation Is Not a One-Size-Fits-All Technique

The same gesture lands differently on every person it reaches. Most project managers find this out by making one and watching half the team be quietly unmoved.