Project Shrink

I must admit, that the first time a played The SIMS I immediately try to get them to kill of love each other. I mean: “Looking for a job” Yeah, yeah. “Hitting the next door neighbor” Cool! Assuming that I am not the only weirdo here, and to make stuff entertaining, lets go to our [...]

To be able to discuss how people operate within a project, it is important to have some kind of idea in our head about people, their behavior and how they interact. Some kind of model. Of course a model is a simplification of reality; we leave things out, we make stuff easier, just to be [...]

Whatever your take is on projects, at the end of the day it is just a bunch of people working together to achieve a certain goal. During this endeavor to laugh, cry, pull pranks, play dirty tricks and have all other kind of behavior towards each other. If you are lucky they even work to [...]

This is a repost of the original Project Sociology article/video. In the first episode of this series I used a very simplified model of how stakeholder behavior is determined: Stakeholders have needs Based upon there needs and their perception of project reality they will choose a strategy that benefits them most. The execution of this [...]

This is a repost of the original Project Sociology article/video. I removed the old one a while ag o oops. In this first episode I will discuss how project people look at each other to measure them selves. Projects are all about people. Its the human element that determines the success or failure of this [...]