We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily.  Without them, we would spend innumerable hours worrying about everything.  We assume our car will start.  Our air conditioner will work.  The weather forecast is accurate. These daily assumptions are banal.  Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful.  Project assumptions and risks […]

Software projects have two measures of success.  First, building and implementing working software.  Second, having people use and adopt it.  Project managers tend to focus their attention on delivering the application.  But the project’s real success rests on user adoption.   Once, I led a large project.  The application was delivered on-time, on-budget, and with the […]

Large enterprises and government agencies increasingly turn to Agile for their software projects.  This is a difficult shift, with many struggling to fit their new round agile pegs into their existing square waterfall holes.  Cultural, structural, and procedural impediments make “being agile” a challenge. Agilists may be critical and call this “fragile-agile” or “agile-fall.”  We […]