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Program Management

Vision Scope Template

How do you convince a team of venture capitalists to bet on you?  There’s a lot of ninja techniques but here I’ll share the fundamentals.  Vision and Scope We use Vision Scope milestones in patterns and practices to sell management on how we’ll change the world.  Knowing the vision and scope for a project is …

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How To Prioritize with 100 Points

A simple way to prioritize your backlog is to use “100 Points.” Give each person prioritizing 100 points to spend. Here is an example. In this case, here is a sample backlog The backlog had more than 100 stories.  You can suggest priorities for these items as well as suggest up to 3 new stories.  …

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Turning Chickens Into Pigs

Have you ever been on a project where key stakeholders don’t have skin in the game, but they have a controlling vote?  This is a bad situation.  It’s like multiple backseat drivers, except they won’t be there if the car crashes.  What’s the solution?  You turn chickens into pigs! The Chicken and the Pig You …

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Agile Project Delivery Using Timeboxing, Rhythm, and Incremental Value

Today I had some interesting conversations with Loren Kohnfelder. Every now and then Loren and I play catch up. Loren is former Microsoft. If you don’t know Loren, he designed the CLR security model and IE security zones. He created a model for more fine-grained control over security decisions and he’s a constant advocate for …

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Program Manager Abilities at a Glance

I was looking for some of my old job descriptions for Program Manager positions to help out a colleague.  While I didn’t find them, I did find some of the questions that I have used to evaluate a potential Program Manager’s effectiveness: Project Management ability to create a work breakdown structure (WBS)? ability to manage …

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