Project Shrink

It might not come as a surprise for you, after all those articles that I wrote about this subject, but if in a project I have to follow a procedure just-because-the-company-says-so we have a serious problem. I can try to comply, and I may even pull it of for a couple of days. But there [...]

I really hated this management mantra. I thought it was boring, because it turned the cool Project Manager into an accountant. I thought it was naive, as management is a black art. I was convinced it could not be done, you cannot measure everything. Yeah I know by now I was utterly wrong. Problem number [...]

Since yesterdays posting I am thinking about exactly what kind of features in software would be a real asset to a Project Manager? Features that would really free up the PM of tedious tasks or make a process far more superior than without the supporting system. Therefore my question to you, just before the weekend, [...]

Photography by Mayr. Josept Thornley explains the overall principles of Social Project Management, a term coined by Leisa Reichelt who has formed her ideas from building social software. Cutely dubbed “Project Management 2.0″, mimicking the current Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 hype. Sadly the formulation she chooses makes it standard “agile” (assuming the posting phrases [...]

With a title like that, I just had to read it. An answer to an ultimate question. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Wouldn’t you like to know why some ancient societies are extinct, while others are still full alive? It also might shed some light on why projects fail or succeed. Society [...]

Not all customers are created equal. I have heard stories about close encounters with clients that have realistic deadlines. As a Project Manager you probably think that most clients are asking schedules that cannot be done. They want the software tomorrow. Actually yesterday, but even customers see that this would be impossible. If the person [...]

Project Managers with experience know that the traditional ways of doing PM are not sufficient any more for all our project situations. You need more tricks up your sleeve to pull it all off. That’s why I follow eagerly the techniques that are coming from the agile PM camp. But I have a hard time [...]

According to Alexa these are the top 10 most visited project management software websites… 1. WikiPedia Explanation of the term “project management software” on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_software 2. BaseCampHQ.com Basecamp PM Software website. Commercial. http://www.basecamphq.com 3. AceProject.com Ace Project PM Software website. Commercial. http://www.aceproject.com 4. ATTask.com AT Task PM Software website. Commercial. http://www.attask.com 5. AxoSoft.com AxoSoft [...]

Photography by The Gold Guys. New Project Managers are eager to make the right impression from the start. I must have been the same. It is too long ago to remember. If you see how the young members of our profession go about playing Project Manager” it makes you wonder how the outside world views [...]

Turn on your television and try not to look at CSI Miami, NYC or Tonopah. It is amazing how popular crime series are, crime series where the geeks will save the day. It must be a universal thing, as the series are as popular in Europe as in The States. For me as a Project [...]