Pragmatic project management builds from a foundation of common sense and incorporates ideas rooted in Agile philosophy and my own experience to provide a basis for project managers to approach their toolkits as craftspeople do, knowing which tools to apply to which jobs for the best results. This blog seeks to achieve clarity about the strengths and weaknesses of tools in our kits, to challenge misconceptions about them and in the discourse about their uses, and through discussion, to build our common sense in their application.
Pragmatic PM is written by Chris Powell, a PMI certified Project Management Professional and Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master with over 20 years of project management experience. Formerly an Associate Director of PMO at the University of Washington, his career spans a wide variety of industries including financial, manufacturing, aerospace, government, higher education and software products and supporting R & D, sales, marketing, operations, and customer support business functions. He has presented on project management topics at local communities of practice and at national conferences focusing on his pragmatic approach to the project management discipline.