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Questions to a professional PM: Interview with Dave Prior

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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

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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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A blog tip…

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Here is an interesting post we found in the Project Management Tips.

It lists an all-inclusive timeline of Project Management milestones starting by the development of the Gantt chart back in 1910s and ends with the publication of the third edition of  PMBOK® Guide in 2008… Enjoy reading it 🙂

BTW here is how the project would look like if Henry Laurence Gantt had a Merlin and a mac to use back then, was only interested in milestones and the future PMs had entered the actuals within… 😉

gantt chart assigments

Click the screenshot to see it in real size…

Need to Deliver a SCRUM Presentation?

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Typically we use this blog to communicate information related project management. But what if you need to make a project management presentation 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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