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Otetsudai Networks “With Otetsudai Networks, if you are willing to work, you sign up for the service with your skills and focus, take a GPS reading on your phone and then just hang out. If you are looking for someone for say… 3 hours to man a cash register or help wash dishes, you just [...]

What is the most important task of a Project Manager? (makes a great dinner discussion if you want to get rid of your guests ) Planning? No! Control? You wished… NO! Communication… HECK NO! The answer is… allocation of scarce resources. Come again? You have limited time, your money pit is not without bottom, you [...]

Absolute must-read: The Next-Generation Workforce and Project Management The workplace is changing in ways not due entirely to the introduction of new technology or new philosophies of management. The workforce itself is changing. The rise of the millennial generation brings workers who are more introspective, more connected to the world and their community, and less [...]

Read this introduction if you are new to this blog. This post functions as an index to key postings on my blog. Look at it as a Table Of Contents. Some links to external sites are included, as there are so many subjects I would like to cover, but didn’t find time to write yet. [...]

Work moves around. If it can be produced cheaper, more efficiently or better, it gets relocated. Talent moves around. If one area on the globe is more exciting and thrilling than another, people relocate. Works moves around. And people that perform the work move around. Not necessarily dependent of each other. Regional population changes rapidly. [...]

In my series called “Future of Project Management Software” I am talking with PM Software vendors about their view of the future. This time a conversation with Massimo Sgrelli from GotThingsDone, the Project Management Software company that brings us WhoDoes. How do you think Project management Software will look like in 5-10 years? Definitely easier [...]

Perhaps you wonder what a management style has to do with a better environment. I live in the Netherlands and our tiny country is heading for a mobility infarct: traffic jams are increasing, they get longer and the timeslots in which they occur are almost covering an entire working day. The Netherlands has a great [...]

Bill Dow and Bruce Taylor have worked four years to bring us the “Project Management Communications Bible“. This book about the most important aspect of Project Management will be available in the first quarter of 2008 and will contain over 1200 pages! Wow. I had a great chat with both of them about their upcoming [...]

Sometimes I amaze myself how good I am. I keep bugging you guys on using all kinds of fuzzy models and theories for Project Management. Even torture you with concepts of complex adaptive systems and system dynamics in general. BUT IT SEEMS I AM RIGHT! If even a PhD coins this subject… WOW! Me so [...]

Carnival of Project Management #13 September edition of Carnival of Project Management. BTW check out this blog, as it looks very interesting. Sourcing from China is a Mistake “At least one consulting firm actually understands that going abroad to reduce manufacturing costs is a bad idea. Lean advocates have long argued that the increased waste [...]