Project Shrink

Why isn’t a document on a shared workspace “social media”? Social media is all about having a “conversation”. An exchange of information between persons. You can write your question in a word document. Upload it. Send me a mail. I check the mail. Download the document. Answer the question. Well, you get the idea. Yes, [...]

Last week I got an email asking if I am an Agilist.
Scuze me? I am Dutch. Does that count?
Of course I know about agile approaches. Yes, I know Scrum. Yes, I know the devastating effects a single minded, too narrow focused, command-and-control fanatic can have on the workplace.

Do you want to boost your effectiveness as a Project Manager sky high? Do you want to know The Real Secret? (hmmmm, I think I will turn this into a movie and have a following) You know projects are about people, right? You know failure to communicate is one of the biggest causes of project [...]

I am tired. I am exhausted from all the information that is poured over me daily. I already stopped watching television (except for Knight Rider). I only listen to non-stop music radio stations. Sometimes it feels like being hosed down by information. In the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?” Andrew B Newberg, MD [...]

At the PMI EMEA Global Congress in Amsterdam I had the pleasure of talking to Brian Weiss, VP of Product Management at Project Management Institute. He explains his view on the role the PMBoK guide plays in the Project Management profession. The last couple of weeks were an amazing experience for me: I became a [...]

Just came back from the first day at the PMI EMEA Congress here in Amsterdam. Love it! Met some great people like Dave Prior, the author of the Drunken PM blog and the ITT SIG Podcast, and a big agile fan. Great day for him. On this first day of the conference a lot of [...]

** This is a guest post by John P Vajda, PMP. Find out more about John at the bottom. ** Every great idea starts as the seed of one person or small group of people. The creative process used to come up with the next best thing, always starts small and innocent. Why can’t we [...]

In this episode of The Project Shrink Podcast I am addressing two questions concerning Project Managers and social media: what is the problem that social media is solving and why is it suited to tackle this problem? This is an introduction to my talk at the PMI EMEA Congress in Amsterdam on the 20th of [...]

A year ago I published a series of postings on this blog about “The Fish Pond“-metaphor. Its purpose is to make some sense of complexity, humans, projects and globalization. I wrote the series together with dr. Ali Anani. This great experience shaped the way I currently think about complexity and human networks. He recently published [...]

In this posting I am going to tell you what the main theme of my blog is… wow. Do I really have an answer? Six weeks ago I released the first draft of my ebook “Project Shrink: Linear Edition“. The reason for publishing unfinished work is to get early feedback. I am very happy to [...]