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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Acceptance Criteria: The Small Detail That Prevents Big Arguments

Two people read the same requirement, do the work, and disagree about whether it has been met. Acceptance criteria are what make that disagreement impossible.

Facilitation as a Core Project Management Skill

Facilitation gets filed with the soft skills. It is the mechanism by which a group of people who do not report to you produce a decision they will act on.

Project Management Meets Product Management

A project has an end date and a product does not. Most of the friction between the two jobs comes out of that single difference, and it is settled early or not at all.

Monitoring Resource Use and Availability

Most project managers lead people who do not work for them. What produces performance when instruction was never available in the first place.

Acquiring Resources When Everyone Is Already Busy

The word acquire does a lot of quiet work. What happens is a negotiation, from a position of very little authority, for something genuinely scarce.

Backlog Refinement: What It Is and Why It Matters

Refinement produces nothing, which is why it goes first in a busy quarter and why the cost turns up three weeks later in a planning session that settles nothing.