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I am sorry to inform you but Project Management as we know it is dead. Plan-driven approaches are dead. Agile will be dead before it hits the masses. You have no idea how I hate this fact. It makes me sad. Heck, it makes me mad! Come to think of it, I wonder if it [...]

171 Ways To Improve Tasks And Project Management This is an incredible list of amazing tools you can use to improve your projects and general task management. It takes a lot of time to view them all, but you will encounter some real gems. Carnival Of Project Management Every month Elizabeth Herrin publishes an overview [...]

SORRY. THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED! This September you can win a free subscription to The Project Management PrepCast, a great way to prepare for the PMP exam. This site is hosted by my friend Cornelius Fichtner from the PM Podcast. Every one that issues a comment on this blog before September 15th will enter the [...]

If you are considering a career in Project Management, I welcome you and congratulate you on a perfect choice. The future is ours. Managing projects is a skill that will be requested more and more in the near future. There will be more projects in the future. And the amount will only increase. For software [...]

For all Dutch people out there that want to see me live and unplugged I will be speaking at the Real Time Collaboration summit in Utrecht (The Netherlands) on September 18th. If you are interested in attending this seminar, please drop me a comment. And if you are curious, my presentation is entitled: “Clothing Optional, [...]

Good Project Management Can Advance Your Career It seems that all the skills that employers are looking for are accumulated in the Project Management profession. Rock on! Project Management and Project Leadership “It means that project managers should manage first and lead only when its their turn. Let the team members take leadership roles when [...]

I read an interesting discussion about what makes a Project Manager outstanding? After reading this, I still hold my position that I am holding for many years now : a Project Manager should make every stakeholder happy. Including the PM self. The better a person can reach this goal, the better Project Manager he is. [...]

I am currently preparing an introduction for IT people in PM methods. While struggling to come up with a way to provide a fast overview of a method, I came up with the following: the four mechanisms of PM methods. A short description of how these mechanisms function within a certain method, works quite well [...]

Opinion: The Agility Factor Those IT professionals and vendors that decide that agility is not their strength are going to be doing business not with end-user businesses, but with IT utilities. 10 Really Good Reasons to Become a Female in IT! It is really the curse of our profession: the lack of female colleagues. Last [...]

Seth Godin has created a list of business cliches, language you hear to often in companies. It inspired me to the image below. You know any PM cliches? Other people who liked this article liked these too25 Ways Project People Can Train Their Mental FlexibilityProjects are about humans. Deal with that! And when dealing, it’s [...]