The assignment went to whoever promised the earliest date. That’s an auction. And you just won it. A director needs a system migration done. Three project managers are in the room. “When can you have it live?” The first PM says, “Let me come back with an estimate by Friday.” The second says, “Realistically, end […]
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Elite Teams Are Small and Fast: What Skunk Works and a Vaccine Taught Us About Agile Project Management
Project managers with a forty-person team and a two-hundred-line schedule: the fastest project teams in history were small enough to fit in one room. That wasn’t a budget constraint they worked around. It was the strategy. This is the second post in our Elite Teams series. The first covered the trait every elite team shares. […]