Project Shrink

I talked before about the importance of getting into the habit of leaving comments on posts and other media. My friend Ali Anani takes it even a step further in his great presentation “Comments On Slideshare Their Mapping and Value Added. Comments On SlideShare Their Mapping And Value Added View more presentations from Ali Anani. [...]

This is a follow up post to “Leaders And Followers In Social Networks“. I love to write and talk about Project Management… uhm, Leadership… or “The Thing That A Project Manager Does To Move His Project In The Proper Direction, Related To People“. I want to share new and exciting stuff and hope it challenges [...]

I recently started working on the second iteration of The Project Shrink linear edition, the free ebook you can download here. This post is an early draft of a concept I am working on. It will focus on the supply and demand of information to nodes in social networks. People have a need for information [...]

Aligning the means between individuals, project and organization is a Herculean task for any Project Leader. The means are the rules of the project. The way things are done. Following are two strategies that can be used to align means. To provide you with some ideas. To start the discussion. Patterning – Going Through The [...]

Andrew Sparks wrote last year a great post about the use of OODA loops in Project Management. The article itself will keep your mind busy for a while, but wait until you read the comments from Andrew and Christian Salmon: “Here is (roughly), the project management problem I am trying to solve. Say that you [...]

This is a outline why mind, complex systems and information visualization are essential topics to cover in understanding projects. Reality doesn’t fit into our head. It is too complex for us to comprehend. Our mechanism to cope with this problem: we think “Gaussian”, we stereotype. It is the human need to categorize everything. We just [...]

When the city of Gotham needs Batman, they will project the Bat-logo high into the sky for everybody to see. Including Batman himself. Wherever he will be, he will get the information without a doubt (Unless it is clouded, he is locked in the Batcave, or gets problems with his eye-sight). The lesson from Batman [...]

When I got my first class on computer networks, I was hooked. I loved the idea of small packets of information hopping from one computer to another. Amazed about how the information always seemed to arrive at the right spot, even if there were a gazillion computers connected, like on the Internet. Although I never [...]