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Motivating Employees With Cash or Gifts? You will love this entire blog from the author of “Predictably Irrational”. “Imagine that you worked for me, and as your year-end bonus, I offered you a choice between $1,000 in cash or an all expense paid weekend in the Bahamas, also worth $1,000. Which option would you chose? [...]

As a kid I played this little game at school we called ‘telephone line’. Twenty kids were hurdled up into a circle. One started by whispering a sentence in the ear of his neighbour, so the other kids couldn’t hear what was said. The neighbour would say the same sentence to his neighbour, and so [...]

Last year I talked to Massimo Sgrelli from GotThingsDone about the future of Project management software. His company had just released version 1.0 of their product WhoDoes back then. Almost a year later, they present WhoDoes 2.0. In the previous conversation Massimo explained that his company strongly feels that project success depends on two factors: [...]

This is a posting in The Fish Pond Metaphor series by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar. The image we like to have of our understanding of globalization is the one popularized by Thomas Friedman, that of a flattened world, in which economic development or potential are equally spread all over the world. Although we [...]

In my series called Proud Postings I ask other bloggers in the Project Management arena: “What are the 3 postings you are most proud of?”. This time three great postings from Andrew Filev. He writes on his blog Project Management 2.0 about how Enterprise 2.0 technologies influence project management. Andrew is the founder and CEO [...]

I know this site can get confusing from time to time. I genuine apologize for that. But an ever increasing number of Project Managers is doing an increasing amount of projects effecting many peoples lives. So what we do matters. We need to know what we are doing. We need to know our Project-Management-Self. Photography [...]

Dear Craig, I am an big fan of your blog. You seem to know some amazing stuff I have no clue about. You know Business Analysis, so please tell me… Why is it that my specifications keep on changing? Would be nice to create a plan that doesn’t get wrecked by changing specs for once. [...]

CSOdessa will release their project management tool ConceptDraw Office in a couple of weeks (latest word is mid June). No, this is not just another piece of PM software. And that is a good thing. If you provide the Project Management world with new tools, you better bring something cool to the table. ConceptDraw innovates [...]

A great post yesterday at Emotional Intelligence for PMs: “People Skills – Not So Important to Project Managers”. It reminded me that I needed to answer this particular question more in detail.

You decide to outsource your software development to some far away exotic country. Why use some local cocky programmer that costs a fortune and only gives you an attitude when you instruct him something simple to do? “Go Far, Go Cheap” seems like a good alternative. But, what if you are not the very trusty [...]