Agile… A Rose By Any Other Name: Project Manager, Scrum Master? Flow Manager? 21 Jun 201521 Jun 2015 I love Pastries. So it stands to reason that I really like Bakeries. Several years ago, I used to frequent a German bakery that sold authentic German pastries. I had to…
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)…
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…
Communication Management… Complicated or Complex? Classifying Projects 19 Oct 201419 Oct 2014 Complicated or Complex How would you define them? Several years ago I would have thought they were nearly the same thing. Apparently, they are slightly different. In a recent…
books… Mental Models 21 Sep 201421 Sep 2014 Do you control your mental models, or, do your mental models control you? If you are not aware that you have a choice of how to look at a situation…
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…
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…
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…
Agile… Questions For a Better Lessons Learned Meeting 18 Jul 2013 Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. -Oscar Wilde I love Post Mortems. At the end of every project, I have a strong urge to figure out what…
books… August 2010: Bug on a Windshield 14 Aug 201014 Aug 2010 It’s the third week of the month again. If you’re new here, the third week of every month, I pull together all the links that I’ve run into since last…
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