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I have been working on a project definition during these last 4 weeks. The result was very well accepted by the customer. What did I do in a different way? I added a lot of perspectives related to the client responsibilities and when they were called to participate in the different activities. I used an … Read more
We are finishing the UAT and now we are in the controversy of classifying the different errors found by the test team. At this point, the PM and the product owner are fighting against some “cosmetic details” that are classified as “errors”. We are gathering all and we have to have a meeting to reach … Read more
If you know soccer rules, you know how clear is the “offside” rule but how difficult is to apply it. As summary, this rule tries to be a component that helps to the defense just to cover a limit part of the field and in consequence avoid the big advantage of the attackers if the … Read more
I have assisted to a training course about agile practices for software development projects. This picture was used during the session and I want to remind it: It shows how the empirical process evolves through the time, and how it reachs its destiny. All this has to be done with the right visibility, inspection, and … Read more
“Out of scope” is mandatory on project definitions, …… why? it’s the contract !!! and from the simplest to the more complex projects, your client can find pieces of work that for your perception should be “out of scope” but from their perception is “in scope”. For sure, perceptions are not contracts, but they can … Read more
We are involved in a project with a weird set of requirements: customer insist on approving all technical documents involved in the project. Ok, no problem, we have adapted the project plan to deliver them and allow them to check it. If you are able to check it, we have not problem to adopt this … Read more
It’s supposed we have to invest our daily time in the stuff that supposes to provoke more revenue, but that’s not always true. I try to apply pareto principle where with 20% of effort I can solve 80% of the problems, the issue is that sometimes we have to dedicate time to the other 20% … Read more
This week one of the team mates, were sending mails ensuring details of a project definition. He finalized the e-mails signing as “Captain Obvious” excusing about he was asking for easy facts but that in his position he needed to know the written answer. I was copied in some of these mails and I replied … Read more
You are in a new position in a new client, you need to know who is the people who take product decisions, who are the project stoppers, which other stakeholders you need to take into account in order to obtain middleware approvals for virtual environments deployments, how much time you need to tell to capacity … Read more
During these last months one of the things I have discovered has been Tempo Programme, the European Commission framework to coordinate all the IT challenges develop for and by the EC. I have just giving a quick view to some of the documents that I needed to review discovering that there are so many processes … Read more