Communication Management… Give Yourself the Gift of Patience 26 Jun 2014 Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? - Tao Te Ching Last Saturday I had plans to…
Communication Management… Critical Customer Requirements or Understanding Remy 12 Jun 201412 Jun 2014 Remy-chan is my one-eared white fluffy cat.* He’s lived with me for over 10 years. Keeping Remy happy and giving him a quality environment is very simple: Feed him cat…
Agile… PMXPO 2014: Worth Another Look 12 May 2014 For PMs with little free time and no money for conferences, online conferences on Project Management have started to spring up. PMXPO is one of the conferences taking advantage of the online…
books… Personal Effectiveness in Project Management: Book Review 28 Apr 2014 “...You’re on the right path when you make decisions and take actions that are true to your values, diversity, passions and core goal - it’s the inside path of your…
Business Value… The Whys of Stakeholders 26 Mar 201426 Mar 2014 “As far as I can tell there are two inviolable truths about people and projects: - There’s a reason behind everything that everyone does on, to, for with, or against…
career… Back to the Essentials 14 Mar 2014 Last week when I read The No. 1 Time Management Mistake Capable People Make I was excited for half a day. Greg McKeown suggests that instead of multi-tasking madly, we…
Business Value… Lessons Learned from Japanese: For Project Management 17 Feb 2014 I am a linguaphile. Not one of those people who spend hours pouring over grammar books or looking up obscure words. My grammar has always been shaky and my…
Business Acumen… Avoid Email Recall: Or Five Suggestions to Cope with Email as a PM 12 Sep 2013 In spite of Microsoft's best efforts, I've never seen Outlook successfully recall a message. Once out there - you lose control of the message and how it's read. To avoid…
Communication Management… Are We On the Same Page? 13 Aug 2013 Are we on the same page? That question has already become a cliche, but it captures the sense that we're talking in circles around each other, not really attacking the…
Agile… Book Review: Commitment 28 Jul 20135 Aug 2013 Feeling trapped by your circumstances? You might be looking at some of your options as commitments. In Commitment, Olav Maasen and Chris Matts write that deferring a decision until the…