Archive for June, 2010

Agile | Waterfall & Uncertainty in Project Management | Dr. Kevin Thompson - cPrime

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

In these series of videos, Dr. Kevin Thompson compares and contrasts Agile projects with Waterfall projects and shows the affects of each when facing uncertainty. Kevin conducts a methodology experiment and shows why Agile projects succeed when others fail.

How Uncertainty Works

All estimates are subject to uncertainty, and project schedules are no exception. A schedule consists of a set of tasks, which are executed at times dictated by dependencies and resources. The simplest schedule, consists of a set of tasks that are executed one after the other.

The schedule for a project contains uncertainty because the estimated effort or duration of each task has some uncertainty associated with it. We would really like to know exactly how long a task will take. If we can’t know that, we would at least like to know how much uncertainty is associated with the task. Unfortunately, we will never know the first, and usually will never know the second, either. (The exception to the latter rule is for tasks that are repeated, identically, enough times for us to collect meaningful statistics about them.) Read the entire article.

Please Watch Parts 2 Through 5 Below:

 

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cPrime Inc., a leader in Project Management Staffing expands to Los Angeles.

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

cPrime Inc., a project management Consulting, Staffing and Training Services company, announces the launch of a new office in Los Angeles.

Foster City, CA May 25th 2010 – cPrime Inc., a Project Management and Agile Consulting, Staffing and Training Services company, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, announced the opening of a new Los Angeles office on June 1st, 2010. New opportunities in the IT space have paved the way for cPrime to transplant their success to a new lucrative Southern California market. cPrime’s rigorous recruiting process gives them the competitive advantage to build and stock a bench of quality IT professionals. cPrime will continue to provide individual and team-based resources for projects at every stage in the life cycle.

The L.A. office will be headed by Kimberly Yang, Vice President of cPrime. Yang has 10 years experience in the IT field and has been acknowledged for her outstanding performance at top IT staffing companies such as TEKsystems, Robert Half International and Kforce. As Managing Director at Kforce, she played a pivotal role of growing and developing new IT staffing offices and leading her staffing teams to pinnacle accounts such as DirecTV, Wilshire Media Group, Farmers Insurance, CBS Radio and NBC Universal. Yang will spearhead the strategic relationship development efforts across the IT space.

Yang is excited to be a part of cPrime, explaining, “A general rule of thumb for me is to constantly surround myself with people smarter, more capable and more driven – the only formula to make oneself better.  I have done just that by joining cPrime.  A firm consisting of visionaries filled with passion, intelligence and intensity is a firm that I wanted to be a part of.”

cPrime Inc. was formed in 2003 by a small group of IT project managers in the Bay Area. All were driven by a shared passion for project management and what they felt was a lack of understanding in the IT field about what makes a great project manager.

cPrime Inc., has proved itself as a leader in Project Management Consulting and Staffing by working with Fortune 1000 companies such as eBay Inc., Electronic Arts Inc., NetApp Inc., Williams-Sonoma Inc., DirecTV, Toyota Motor Corp. According to Inc 500, cPrime is ranked as one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in America, ranking 4th for fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley and 6th for the S.F. Bay Area in 2009.

As they continue to transplant their success from the S.F. Bay Area, they will strive to build another full service Consulting, Staffing and Training Practice in the greater Los Angeles Area. The cPrime expansion will focus on deploying the right cultural fit with the right blend of social and technical expertise that is required in today’s market. cPrime enables organizations to align their strategic goals and strategies to bottom line results.