Project Shrink

One of my main arguments about Project Management is that as a good professional you should know as many methods and techniques as possible. You should know their intentions and inner workings, you have a lot of options to choose from. After viewing this presentation from psychologist Barry Schwartz I am not sure any more [...]

Every time someone mentions that he will work from home instead of being in the office, I get visions of the Dilbert comic in which Dilbert is walking around in his bathrobe, unshaven while telecommuting. I know, my bad. I have got to have more faith in humanity and find a cure for my cartoon-operated [...]

There are not many books available that cover the topic of when to apply an agile or plan driven method. In my opinion the selection of when to apply a certain technique or process component remains the most difficult area of Project Management. I only know of two books that cover this in detail, my [...]

Rival to Microsoft Project goes open source There already is an open source alternative for MS Office, OpenOffice, and now we are finally getting a free subsititute for MS Project. Hunt for project management software This company is looking for new project management software. Read their findings during the selection process. Part 1 and Part [...]

Mike Ramm from the Stop And Think blog tagged me for the 8 Random Facts meme. In it I have to tell 8 random facts about myself on my blog. First I have to post these rules: Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves which others do not know about them. People who [...]

Photography by Dylan Parker A couple of years ago I was asked during a sales presentation what I thought was the most essential ingredient for a successful project. My answer was “mutual trust”. People in the room were staring at me like I was some kind of Softy Oozy New Age Treehugger. I switched very [...]

When I got my first class on computer networks, I was hooked. I loved the idea of small packets of information hopping from one computer to another. Amazed about how the information always seemed to arrive at the right spot, even if there were a gazillion computers connected, like on the Internet. Although I never [...]

Predicting the future is always more an art than a science, but I will give it a shot today. What will the next generation of Project management software look like? Except from the intensified collaboration features, we will see some serious power in generating non-trivial management information. Let’s say, data mining for Project Management on [...]

Steven Smith asks in a recent posting a simple question that gets shocking answers. Albert is a very good and highly productive employee. He works three times as fast as the other employees and delivers with great quality. Albert has two rules though: he never works more than 20hrs a week (getting the 40hrs 100% [...]

I love looking at situations through different glasses to get several perceptions. I love reading and thinking about human behavior. And I adore authors that take on a multidisciplinary approach. So I must be ecstatic when all three are combined. I am. In Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another Philip Ball explains to [...]