collaboration… Mixed Expectations 2 May 20182 May 2018 When a team has temporarily assigned specialists, it is important to ensure that everyone has the same set of expectations. #APG (Agile Practice Guide) Clarifying Expectations is not just a…
books… Book Review: Triggers: Creating Behavior that Lasts 20 Aug 201520 Aug 2015 "If there's one 'disease' that I'm trying to cure in this book, it revolves around our total misapprehension of our environment. We think we are in sync with our environment,…
books… Experimenting with Personal Kanban 23 Feb 2015 After reading Personal Kanban, I wanted to try running with some of the authors' ideas in the real world. And why not? All I needed was a Kanban board and a…
Agile… Book Review: Personal Kanban 25 Jan 2015 "Like Traffic, work does not fit. Work flows." - Personal Kanban Do you ever look up at the end of the day and wonder 1) Where the day went? 2)…
books… Plan Some of Your Work, Work that Plan 22 Nov 201422 Nov 2014 The adaptive, flexible approach....views projects as dynamic, unstable, and hard-to-predict processes. It assumes that changes will take place during project execution - changes in the environment, the business, the markets,…
Business Acumen… Is Good Strategy also Good Project Management? 16 Sep 2014 Picture This: You’re in the middle of a constantly changing terrain - where your resources, external influences and even the tactical objectives can change overnight. Your objective: to navigate through a valley…
books… Book Review: From Projects to Programs, a Program Manager’s Journey 19 Aug 201419 Aug 2014 Can you define Program Management? How different is it from Project Management? What does a Program Manager ‘do’ if they are not managing the projects in their program? Those are…
books… Manage Conflict Through Discovery? 2 Aug 2014 There’s more than one way to skin a cat. This is a very old saying essentially meaning there is more than one way to get to your goal. Most people…
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…
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…
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