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Agile Architectural
Practices provides information, advice, tools, and other
materials to help architects manage projects effectively. |
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Menlo Innovations
discussion of
agile |
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Command and Control Research
Program focuses on improving both the state of the art and the
state of the practice of command and control and enhancing DoD's
understanding of the national security implications of the
Information Age. |
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Network for
Agile Methodologies Experience
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Road Maps: A
Guide to Learning System Dynamics
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Lean Construction Research Thesis
is a source of PhD and Masters thesis on lean
construction from various universities.
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Iris Tommelein
hosts a
lean constriction site at UC Berkley
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International Group for Lean
Construction conference proceedings
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Slides from the USC Center for Software
Engineering "Agile and Discipline" conference are available from their file
system at
USC-CSE Affiliates Research Review. This workshop includes an executive
overview of agile methods.
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"Rebalancing
your Organizations Agility and Discipline,"
Barry Boehm and Richard Turner an XP Universe paper.
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"Agile
Management: Cost Justifying Agile Software Development with the Theory of
Constraints," David J. Anderson, Public
Draft 2.0. is a chapter from a "book in progress" located at
http://www.uidesign.net.
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Agile Movement:: Supporting the Agile
Manifesto is a site hosted by Jørgen Larsen
and discusses various agile development issues.
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"Agile
Software Development in Theory and Practice,"
Jonna Kalermo and Jenni Rissanen, Master's Thesis,
The Software Business Program,
University of Jyväskylä,
6.8.2002
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Wicked Problems are approachable with agile
methods. CogNexus.com
is a
site with some interesting ideas for wicked problems
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Simpler is a "lean manufacturing" site
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Lean Construction
reading list.
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Methods and Tools
is a
web-zine dedicated to agile development methods
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"Wicked
Problems: Naming the Pain in Organizations," E. Jeffry Conklin and William
Weil, is a GDSS
white discussing
the realities of non-linear project processes.
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"Application
of Lean production to Project Management," Michael Horman and Russell
Kenley, University of Melbourne
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"Lean
Principles Implementation in the Program Preparation Phase,"
Freddie Douglas, III, Masters Thesis, University of Alabama, Huntsville. This
paper is hosted at the NASA Academy of Program
and Project Management.
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The
IGLC
10 Conference has several papers on the theory of PM
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Mary Poppendieck's
Lean Software Development
site
contains several essays on lean software development and project management.
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Just a little Extreme Programming humor.
The
Twelve Step Program.
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"Product
Development Tensions: Exploring Contrasting project Management Styles,"
Marianne. W. Lewis,
A. W. Welsh, G. E. Dehler, and S. G. Green, Academy of Management Journal,
June 2002. This paper outlines the concept that "agile" and "structured"
management styles have many overlapping benefits. It also describes how
emergent PM methods have beneficial impacts on project where requirements are
changing or innovative results are needed. I recommend this as a starting
point for the agile PM discussion.
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Jim
Coplien's Process Patterns is a list of patterns applicable to PM
activities.
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"Changes
from DOD–STD–2167A to MIL–STD–498," Major George A. Newberry, USAF,
Crosstalk, April 1995.
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"Dirty Secrets of Runaway Projects," Communications of the ACM, October
1998, 41(10).
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"Software
Process Framework,"
Timothy G. Olson, Neal
R. Reizer, and James W. Over, SEI.
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"Short–term and Long–term Remedies for Runaway Projects," Robert Glass,
Communications of the ACM, July 1998, 41(7).
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"Software Project Management: The Manger's View," Jaak Jurison,
Communications of the AIS, 2(17), September 1999. This is an "overview"
document on managing software projects in the IT context. |
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"Dispelling
the Process Myth: Having a Process Does Not Mean Sacrificing Agility or
Creativity," Hillel Glazer,
Crosstalk, November, 2001. |
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An Exposition of XP,
hosted at the IEEE Computer Society's dynabook site. This discussion of
how XP can be reconciled with the high-ceremony processes based on CMM is
important, since it lays the groundwork for the use of other less extreme
agile processes. The most important concept for any discussion is waterfall
versus iterative versus "extreme" process is shown in Kent Beck's contribution
to the dynabook in
Figure 1. When the proponents of XP speak of "iterations" it is not the
same as iterations in something like Spiral or RUP. |
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International
Group for Lean Construction,
8th International
Conference, 7th
International Conference,
6th International
Conference, the
1997
Conference, and the
1996
Conference have papers on issues associated with the agile PM. |
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Lou Russell's presentation at the Madison PMI
titled "Managing
Projects @ Speed of e." |
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"Reforming Project Management: The Role of Lean
Construction," Gregory Howell and Lauri Koskela. Various gaps in the current
project management "theory" discussed and how these gaps need to be closed
before lean construction can be successful. |
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"Researching the Unanswered Questions of Project
Management," Peter Morris, PMI Research Conference, June 2000. A
discussion of how tools and pre–defined processes are the focus of project
management, rather than the underlying business outcomes. |
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"Updating
the Project Management Bodies of Knowledge," Peter W. G. Morris, Centre
for Research in the Management of Project, UMIST. |
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"Project Management Theory and the Management of
Research Projects," Erik Erno-Kjolhede," MPP Working Paper 3/2000,
Department of Management, Copenhagen Business School. Managing research
projects has many similarities with managing software development. |
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"The Prevalent Theory of Construction is a
Hindrance for Innovation," Lauri Koskela and Ruben Vrijhoef. Construction
projects are moving to "agile" processes. This paper describes this move. |
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"Understanding the Link Between IT Project
Manager Skills and Project Success: Research in Progress," Nicole Haggerty,
Proceedings 2000 ACM SIGCPR, pp. 192–195. |
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"Business
Analysis in Extreme Programming," Ron Jeffries XProgramming.com. This
article describes the myths associated with having business analyst between
the customers and the development staff. This approach is indicative of
agile processes, in which the questions is asked how can we avoid
confusion and get closer to the source of information? |
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100 Rules for NASA PM's
is
slightly tongue–in–cheek lessons learned as compiled by Jerry Madden,
Associate Director of the Flight Projects Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center: (Mr. Madden collected these gems of wisdom over a number of
years from various unidentifiable sources. They have been edited by Rod
Stewart of Mobile Data Services in Huntsville, Alabama). |
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Ed Yourdon's Power Point presentation to the
Boston SPIN titled "Extreme
Project Management" |
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"Extreme
Programming from a CMM Perspective," Mark C. Paulk, XP Universe July
2001, discusses the Extreme Programming method in light of the SEI's
Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Paulk reviews the CMM's KPA's against the
principles of XP. The issues of process rigor are discussed as well. |
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Project Management
Maturity Model |
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The Project Manager's Guide to Software Engineering's Best Practices,
Mark J. Christensen, and Richard H. Thayer, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002. |
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Copenhagen Business School
has many working papers and publications on the theory of management. |
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Scandinavian
Working Papers in Business Administration contains papers on the
theory of management. |
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Strategic Planning for Project Management Using a Project Management Maturity
Model, Harold Kerzner, John Wiley and Sons, 2001. |
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"Major
Causes of Software Project Failures," Lorin J. May, Crosstalk,
July, 1998. |