I sometimes notice that people get confused implementing PRINCE2 and/or Scrum. Especially PRINCE2 is notorious for the amount of processes and artifacts. Scrum is much more free format, but also with Scrum people seem to lose track over what's really important. So...
Below you'll find my presentation on Lean applied to project management which I gave last June at the Dutch BPUGNL seminar. have fun! Lean PRINCE2, projectmanagement is waste (maar noodzakelijk) from Martin van Borselaer
Today I found a new cool video on the leadership subject. Inno-Versity created an Inno-Mation based on the book by former US submarine captain David Marquet in which he explains how he turned his submarine from the worst to the best performing vessel in the US Navy....
I'm a great believer in visual management. I love brown papers with sticky notes and lots of charts. That's also why I love spreadsheets. Not because I think you can manage projects by crunching data, but spreadsheets give me the opportunity to visualize the project's...
Last Friday my latest Whitebook was published, called 'Agile release planning with PRINCE2 tolerances and Scrum Business Value'. It's in Dutch. For my international readers I'll try to post an English translation soon.
Due to great demand I'd like to share my Excel template for agile project planning with you. Though each project has it's own needs, I'll usually take the following into account when planning agile projects: Velocity Past team performance, expressed in number of Story...
Previously I posted an Excel Gantt Chart template for Excel 2007 (or 2010). The template works great as is, but it's hard to reproduce on your own. Here's the step by step instruction: Create the chart data For this example I use the following data: Task Startdate...
Yesterday I participated in a Dutch Agile Government Open Space meeting. The theme of this session was 'Agile & ICT Policy'. One of the speakers was Brigitte van den Burg. She is one of our Lower House representatives and within her party responsible for the Dutch...
One of the more difficult aspects of managing projects is to find the right balance between spending time on accountability, reporting and control or spending time on getting things done (progress). Spending time on planning and reporting activities means that you and...
It has been a while since my last post. I've been very busy managing a demanding project. The good news is that I finally managed to create a decent Gantt Chart in Excel 2007. With that I do mean a Chart object in Excel, not just some manual tinkering with Excel...