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Chuck Cobb

Chuck is the author of the recent, best-selling book "The Project Manager's Guide to Mastering Agile" as well as four other books on Agile Project Management and Business Excellence. He is the founder of the Agile Project Management Academy and he is a very popular instructor with over 80,000 students in 174 countries worldwide with almost 5,000 5-star reviews. His Agile Project Management curriculum is supported on three different training platforms: Udemy (Including Udemy for Business) Pluralsight and The Agile Project Management Academy And, several large major corporations have standardized on his training for all of their project managers. In addition, He has also been a featured speaker at a number of PMI Chapter events, agile groups, universities, and PMO workshops throughout the US as well as internationally. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Boston University and many of his courses originated from a graduate-level Agile Project Management curriculum he originally developed for Boston University. He has a very pragmatic, "real world" approach to Agile that is based on over 20 years of hands-on program/project management experience in a broad range of industries and application areas and he is passionate about helping project managers, business managers, and companies understand the convergence of Agile and traditional project management principles and practices.

What’s the Impact of an Agile Project Management Approach?

I recently wrote an article on “Reinventing Project Management” which advocates developing a more integrated Agile Project Management approach that embraces both Agile and traditional plan-driven project management in the right proportions to fit any given project. Some people will want more information on how a hybrid Agile Project Management approach would work and what […]

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What’s New with PMI-ACP and How Does It Impact My Training?

PMI has recently announced a new direction for the PMI-ACP exam. It’s been over (10) years since the PMI-ACP exam was originally created and changes are definitely needed. Many people who are familiar with my Agile Project Management training may be wondering what I think of those changes and how it relates to the training

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Reinventing Project Management

In this article, I want to talk about the need for “Reinventing Project Management”. Any dynamic organization or company needs to be constantly evolving to keep pace with a rapidly changing marketplace and competitive environment. My favorite example of that is American Express. American Express started their business in the 1800’s delivering packages on railway

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What Is Agile Project Management?

There seems to be some confusion about “What Is Agile Project Management?”. To some people, it seems to be nothing more than the level of project management that is already integrated into Scrum and consists of simply managing the implementation of a standard Scrum project. I think it is more than that. I think it

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What Is Value-driven Project Management?

What is value-driven project management? The very essence of what “project management is” is going through significant changes at this time. For many years, project management has been heavily associated with what I call a “traditional plan-driven approach to project management” where the primary emphasis has been on planning and control to achieve predictability over

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What Can We Learn from the OceanGate Tragedy?

What Can We Learn from the OceanGate Tragedy? The recent OceanGate tragedy where five people were killed in an apparent implosion was, in hindsight, a disaster waiting to happen; and from a project management perspective, there are many things that could have been done better to prevent this from happening. We can learn from this

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What Happens to Professors If No One Signs Up for His/her Class?

I participated in a question-and-answer session on Quora in response to a question someone asked, “What happens to professors if no one signs up for his/her class?” I want to share my answer with you. My Early Start at Boston University I was originally hired as an Adjunct Professor at Boston University about (10) years

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How Long Should I Study for PMI-ACP?

How Long Should I Study for PMI-ACP?

I participated in a discussion on “How long should I study for PMI-ACP?” and here is my initial response: “It’s very unlikely that you can pass the PMI-ACP exam simply by cramming prior to taking the exam. The best way to prepare for the exam is to combine studying with some good, solid real-world experience.

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What Happened to Southwest Airlines?

What happened to Southwest Airlines has been a popular topic lately. The airline had the biggest meltdown in airline history with thousands of flights canceled and many passengers and hundreds of pieces of luggage stranded at a number of different airports throughout the US. Even now, Southwest is still struggling to recover from this disaster

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Is Elon Musk a Good Agile Manager?

Is Elon Musk a Good Agile Manager?

Is Elon Musk a Good Agile Manager? I recently participated in a discussion on the question of “How would you describe Elon Musk’s leadership and management style?” There has been a lot of interest in this since Elon Musk acquired Twitter and I’ve given a lot of thought to this subject. Elon Musk does not

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