Some of the differences I have experienced between Business Analysis and Project Management. As you can see (below) when you are using...

New Trends The new breed of business analysis has to integrate people skills, technical skills, creativity, and critical thinking...

Competition/Economic Conditions The world has truly become a “global economy” and the forces of competition and economic conditions...

Schedule and Costs There are many control processes that you can implement to manage your agile/scrum project schedule and associated...

Project Progress How you measure and report progress in your agile/scrum project is very important to your credibility as a ScrumMaster. ...

Team Development All agile/scrum frameworks will help to provide the opportunity to develop your team. Here are a few activities during...

Performance and Scope We (all of us) at times forget some of the most important things that are related to your project, performance is...

Issues-Nonverbal/Verbal Communication is a multiple lane highways, the agile/scrum framework tries to elevate this by having daily...

Communication Plan Communication is the key that brings together all of the vital components of your agile/scrum project. Without a...

Lessons Learned Ok so I know that one of the agile/scrum manifesto items is “create just enough paperwork” and I have in earlier posts...

When using agile/scrum frameworks for application development, change is a constant factor in your project and is welcomed. In these...

Agile/Scrum Risk Control When you are using the agile/scrum framework one of the principals of this these frameworks are creating “just...

My history while using the Scrum framework is that the framework is all about taking risks early and often in the development of the...

Quality in any methodology/framework I believe is the true measurement of a successful project. It's the project...

Using the waterfall methodology all of the project's scope gets unidentified at the beginning of the project by using all the...

Quality Assurance-Waterfall In traditional methodologies like waterfall, QA is primarily a function of the execution phase. If you ask...

You have to start with a member of the business/stakeholder, someone who can make decisions NOT just a member of that business unit. You...

I see little things that the traditional project management methodologies introduce into the agile/scrum environment. I think there are a...

So if you read Bruce Tuchman’s 1965 Forming Storming Norming Performing team-development model you start to understand that teams go...

Now you have to tools needed to efficiently build a team and you know the approach to take from day one of your project. Using smart...