Visiting Gantt Again with Apologies to Glen
February 2nd, 2007 by HalArticle Series - Using Gantt Charts
Yesterday I made a posting "On the Side" calling attention to The PM Toolbox's follow-up to my work on Gantt charts. Well, it turns out The PM Toolbox was just republishing someone else's work. And they did it without any obvious credit to the author. (They included a link at the very end of the article using the word "source" rather than the author's name or website name.) Glen Alleman is the author of that fine essay. His writing, appearing in Herding Cats, is a very thoughtful and provocative essay. Have a look at Visiting Gantt Again.
I've removed my original posting. And, you won't be seeing any more links in this weblog to the offending site until they start giving due credit and writing their own material.
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February 4th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Hal
Thanks for correcting this. As I find Glen to be a good frame to bounce on. In his piece Glen talks about the many differences between Agile and traditional approaches. One item he missed - which is a source of great concern is the simplicity of Agile methods and the ‘ease’ at which people can become ‘certified’ in these methods as opposed to the cedrtification hurdles other groups have. Here again I believe Agile does something noteworthy - it recognizes that the best it can ‘teach’ is the basics and the becoming masterful is up to the person.
A while ago I posted a piece on Scrumdevelopment comparing Scrum to the Waltz. Both are made up of very straightforward, unambiguous, steps that move you and your partner around a dance floor to the rythm of a equally simple beat. 1, 2, 3.
What you can do with this is best seen by what the waltz looks like as an international competition or a bunch of middle school kids working out their coordination issues. It is all the same beat, all the same steps that accomplished the same results for the benefit of the participants and deliver what the people can do in the context they are in.