Agile… Book Review: Collaborating with the Enemy 3 Oct 20173 Oct 2017 Collaborating with the Enemy. A catchy title for a book, but how many project managers would think of picking it up from the title? I mean, no one wants to…
Business Acumen… How to Pivot Gracefully into a New Industry 8 Mar 20178 May 2017 Have you jumped from IT to Financial project management? Or from IT to Digital project management? What you don't know about the terminology, risks, and standard expectations in an industry…
books… Book Review: The 12 Pillars 18 Jan 2016 When his car breaks down in front a mansion called the 12 Pillars, Michael Jones isn't sure what's wrong with his car or what to do about it. As his…
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…
Business Acumen… Are We Building Widgets or Reducing Costs? Using Benefits to Drive our Project Focus 8 Feb 20158 Feb 2015 As Project Managers we communicate daily to Customers, Salespeople and Senior Management. We could be using the PMI-approved words and concepts, but our focus may be frustrating our audience. To effectively…
Agile… Course Corrections: PM Acceptance of Change 18 Jan 201518 Jan 2015 "Course corrections are not project management failures, nor do they suggest a loss of control - quite the opposite in fact. Rigid plans with fixed definitions of success limit our…
Business Value… Self-Improvement: Looking for your Blind Spots 10 Jan 2015 Have you finished your goal-setting for 2015? How did you do it? Apart from external feedback, it can be hard to assess where you need to focus because of your…
books… Book Review: Teamwork is an Individual Skill 15 Dec 20144 Aug 2017 Teamwork Is an Individual Skill. The book title itself seems to turn our usual assumptions about teamwork upside down. And true to its title, the book tries to give its…
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,…
books… Managing Your Emotions: In the Middle of a Tough Conflict 29 Oct 201429 Oct 2014 To beat a tough conflict, you need to quickly shift to a much bigger and higher state of mind than the conflict itself. The secret is to immediately think of…
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