best-practices - Silicon Valley Project Management

Some thoughts on usage scenarios

By Anita Wotiz / July 9, 2008

Recent posts on the importance of usage scenarios (use cases or user stories) in the development process warmed my heart. In my […]

By Anita Wotiz / July 7, 2008

I’ve written somewhat negatively about outsourcing in the past: primarily issuing warnings about doing it without proper planning, for the

By Sam Hahn / June 3, 2008

40 years ago this December, something extraordinary was offered to us. It became known as the “mother of all demos”

By Debbie Hein / May 7, 2008

Five Whys provides a structured yet simple approach to solving problems as they occur during a project and can provide a

By Karina Jensen / April 23, 2008

The international adventures and pitfalls of a global project manager can make great storytelling for your team campfire. Then why

By Unknown PM / April 19, 2008

If you have not read Shampa’s post below I encourage all of you to read it. I would like to

By Unknown PM / April 16, 2008

Hmm… I remember the bad old days and maybe some of you are still living tlhem, getting up early or

By Unknown PM / April 15, 2008

I thought it would be fun to list some impressions of favorite and least favorite Project management books and methodologies.

By Unknown PM / April 15, 2008

Having made a moniker name called theUnknownPM kinda makes it impossible for me to push my own products so instead

By Aaron Smith / April 7, 2008

There is no shortage of project management books. How they apply to your project reality is, well, another story. At

By Randall Englund / February 24, 2008

Much as he did earlier in his career, Proman was now at another crossroad. The large program had just concluded.