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Currently I am tracking 90 blogs related to Project Management. Last month I found these ten postings highly remarkable and interesting: It’s the sociology, telecommuters Silos & Empires The Emerging and Strange Alliance Between Boomers and Millennials 7 Reasons for the Rapid Growth of Project Management in IT Engaging middle management in “Enterprise 2.0? The [...]

Craig Brown writes a blog at BetterProjects.net. Craig and I are regular readers of each other’s sites and now we are having a conversation from site to site. Dear Craig, Of course, we do need more than training alone to improve Project Managers and everyone else involved in projects. From the top of my head: [...]

It has been almost ten months since I outlined my last model of Project Management. The importance of having some kind of mental image about projects and Project Management may not come as a surprise. We are long due for an update on how I think everything links together. Photography by Elvire R. People Operating [...]

There is no Iron Triangle in Project Management. In PM we learn the holy trinity of the triple constraint, the concept that we are operating within borders, and that those borders are interdependent. Oh yeah, and “triple” or “triangle” indicates that there are three. Although the image is powerful to instruct, it is plain false. [...]

Different project circumstances require different approaches to ensure optimum effectiveness. As mentioned over and over again on this blog, it is the people who largely determine these circumstances, and you have to tailor your project approach to the particular situation. For this you can make use of techniques and tools from different existing methods by [...]

It’s time for a reader suggestion thread and today’s question is: What is the best advice you can give to project managers supervising offshore development projects? Please place a comment with your tip on managing offshore development. It might be the importance of communication; it might be the need for bridging cultural differences. Don’t hold [...]

A while ago I was talking about the importance of preplanning your project: “The idea about preplanning is to equip yourself in such a way that you can adapt to circumstances. That you create an start situation that is as good as you possibly can. If you go to the arctic, you take warm cloths, [...]

Sorry for the slow pace in postings recently. I traveled to London for a short holiday. LOVED IT! If we have one World City in Europe, it must be London. Anyway, I am back, and have some nice postings lined up for the next weeks, as we are approaching the one year anniversary of Project [...]

Craig Brown writes a blog at BetterProjects.net. Craig and I are regular readers of each other’s sites and now we are having a conversation from site to site. Hi Craig, Thanks for the great summary. Yes, I think the solution to the problem of changing requirements lies basically in education and training. The sources of [...]

On this blog I talk a lot about the need for people to be able to see different perspectives on matters. An impressive example of this is shown in the video below (if you read the RSS feed, you need to visit this post to view). In it an American programmer goes 30 days to [...]