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How Our Project Management Education And Recruitment Creates Stiffs When We Need Gumby’s Just for the record I have no problems with Project Management methods. Prince 2, PMBoK, SCRUM, Latest Lean Hype. They are all fine by me. Other people who liked this article liked these tooWent To London And Created LensesSorry for the slow [...]

The most interesting postings of this month can be attributed to Glen Alleman at Herding Cats. Although I don’t always agree, these are provoking postings that trigger your brain, and helps you to become more aware of a question I asked earlier this month: “Why Do You Do What You Do in Project Management?” Killing [...]

You know that morning when you wake up and think “What the heck am I doing with my life?”, “How did I get here?” and “What have I achieved?” Scary stuff. LazyMale, the blogger of Lap31, had that defining moment at his 30th birthday. So Lap31 is about him getting all reflective and stuff, and [...]

This is a posting in The Fish Pond Metaphor series by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar As projects start and end within organizations the demand for employees fluctuates. It seems that in certain times the workforce is just too small to handle all tasks, and in slow times many employees are doing nothing. With [...]

Change is the norm. Change is happening fast. The projects you are managing are not your daddy’s projects. To be able to handle the ever morphing environment, you need to become agile, flexible as you have never been before. “”If you are talking about “agile project managers”, this would be the key aspect of my [...]

State of Indiana Makes Using Waterfall SDLC’s a Criminal Offense ”Waterfall software development lifecycles have terrorized technology projects in this state for too long,” Governor Mitch Daniels said at a simple signing ceremony held at a meeting of the Central Indiana chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI). “This bill will end the tyranny of [...]

This is really my favorite Project Management question to which I don’t have a real answer: are our industry’s best practices really that, or do we merely say they are because as a PM we are expected to say so? You know that when you fall, you experience pain. You have felt that as a [...]

In my series called Proud Postings I ask several other bloggers in the Project Management arena What are the 3 postings you are most proud of?. This week three great postings from Stacey Douglas. She writes wonderful pieces on her blog “Undocumented Features“. Other people who liked this article liked these tooProject Shrink Popular PostsBelow [...]

Its time for a reader suggestion thread and todays question is: What is the best way to motivate project team members? I have talked enough for a moment. Now it’s you who can have a go at this topic. Please place a comment with your tip to motivate team members; how do you excite your [...]

My monthly column at Techtarget: Project managers cannot rely on generalizations: Photography by Notariety. “The second reason was given to me by Nassim Taleb in his book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. It is the human need to categorize everything. We just have to put the world around is in neat [...]