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Questions to a professional PM: Interview with Dave Prior

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 22. December 2009

As promised here the interview Dave Prior gave to our Richard Joerges.

It is about project management in general, agile methods like Scrum and XP, Twitter and of course project management on Mac OS X.

MacPM: What are the benefits of scrum in your opinion?

Dave Prior: Scrum offers a great alternative to traditional “waterfall” approach. I find it works best on projects that are high risk, troubled or have really tough (impossible) deadlines. It is a great way to get the client fully engaged and build a quick history of success that leads to deeper trust. At first glance it seems fairly basic and simple, but it does require a lot of discipline. Lately I’ve been blending Scrum and the PMBOK a lot. I use Scrum with the development team so that they can move quickly and stick to the business of coding and I take the output of the Scrum process and port the results into PMBOK oriented reporting formats I can use for more traditional minded senior executives.

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Dave Prior: PM combining the best of two worlds

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 21. December 2009

Richard Joerges, our colleague from the German blog, had the chance talking with Dave Prior and wrote a very interesting post here.

In case you happen not to know Dave Prior already, Dave is a PM for the past 15 years and has been volunteering for PMI since 2002. He has been on the board of the IT&T SIG since 2003 and was the Chair during 2008. Now serving out his term as Past Chair, Dave is also senior consultant at Valtech in the Transformation Services group – which helps companies who want to migrate to Agile.

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Agile Business Intelligence Collaborative Book Project

John Kranz on 10. June 2009

An excellent opportunity has presented itself to all PM-focused analytical minds out there: you can participate with others in shaping the content for a new book on Agile Business Intelligence! An intial draft of the Table of Contents has already been posted, as well as select sections of the book (see Chapter 1 | Chapter 2).  Contributing is easy: just register online.

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Need to Deliver a SCRUM Presentation?

John Kranz on 8. June 2009

Typically we use this blog to communicate something about project management. But what if you need to make a presentation relating to project management to a customer or one of your superiors? We can help you here as well, at least if the topic matter is Scrum. And better yet, the help comes from one of the Grand Masters of Scrum, namely Mike Cohn.

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