Contrary to traditional project management where risk management is an integral and crucial part of the project management process, there is no explicit mention of risk management in popular agile methodologies. This makes us wonder whether we manage risk on agile projects at all. It should make sense that since agile project management differs from…
The book »Alpha Project Managers: What the top 2% know that everyone else does not« presents results from a research among a large number of project managers conducted by the company Velociteach. The purpose of the research was to discover what the best project managers do differently as well as to find out what they know that everyone…
A hot topic related to data management is the ability to deal with huge volumes of data. We are talking about such huge volumes of data that we can barely manage them with current technologies in reasonable response times. New technologies that have become available are more suited for working with such huge amounts of…
The business environment is changing at a fast pace and projects are not always up to date with achieving business goals. Agile project management ensures quick results that satisfy stakeholder requirements in a timely manner. On top of that we should also implement agile program and portfolio management which ensures that a collection of projects…
In the February issue of PM Network magazine you can read an interview with me about my views on sex discrimination in IT. The article is written as a debate between two project managers with opposing views. My opinion is that based on my experience there is no sex discrimination in IT. Who knows whether my…
The end of the year is near and it’s time to look back and review what was noteworthy in the past year and whether last year’s predictions came true. Information Week published a list of the 20 most important IT trends in 2011. According to the article’s author Eric Lundquist, the first on the list is…
Interview with the founders of the group Skram.si in Slovenia, Tilen Travnik from Domenca Labs (D•Labs) and Dušan Omerčević from Zemanta. — PMI Slovenia Chapter Newsletter, Issue 2 Year 6, December 19, 2011
This year’s Business process management conference hosted several discussions about the (non)connectivity between business processes in companies with business intelligence. The theme was introduced by a professor from the Zagreb Economic Faculty who presented research into this area with a case study and concluded with a round table of IT managers from various local companies. More…
Data warehousing has matured to the point where it has become required as a necessary part of business information infrastructure. No longer are data warehouses regarded as a new and untried concept. In recent years we have seen developments in technologies, methodologies, architectures, approaches and ways of using the data warehouse. But this does not…
Data warehouses must be constantly kept up to date – on the one hand due to changing business requirements and on the other hand due to technological advances. We can say that a warehouse is never really completed. Maintaining a data warehouse may in time become even more demanding than its initial implementation. How do…