Bad Smells in Project Management

Do you ever have, what you think is, a new thought but then realise that maybe it's just something you've just read about a while back? I was thinking about project management today - that's what I tend to do during business hours. Anyway, I was thinking that I could probably apply the design and code "Bad Smells" technique described in the agile methods literature just as effectively to Project Management.

But now that I think about it maybe I've just read it in the Scrum book or maybe that Barry Boehm book that compares standard vs agile approaches. I'm going to have to go off and investigate...