Tag: measurement

  • Breaking News: Team Members are Humans.

    Introduction I’ve recently attended an instance of a virtual training course on interviewing job candidates. While the course and trainer were great – make no mistake here! – there was one thing that made go ballistic. While portaying the benefits of the specific interviewing approach, about 5 slides in, the “Utilization Rate” was named as one…

  • On Project Success – Why Traditional KPIs are not enough

    Schism Something is amiss in Project Management Land and it’s not the usual “Traditional PM vs. Agile PM” squabble. It’s a lot more fundamental as it goes to the core of every project: The measure of success. This is different from the question of goal attainment, a topic which in my opinion has been examined…

  • Agile Performance Measurement

    The Problem of Measurement As more and more projects shift to the Agile methodology more focus is put on the entire team’s performance and delivery. This in turn means it does no longer matter if you as an individual have completed all your assigned tasks if the team as a whole has failed to succeed.…