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22: The Paradox of Letting Go

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    July 25, 2010
The Tao of Project Management

One of the interesting observations about project management is that when we try too hard we seem to achieve nothing. Yet when we stop tryi...   Read More

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Project Portfolio Management - Projects Must Position The Firm For Fut>

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Project Portfolio Management - Projects Must Position the Firm For Future Success By Jessie L. Warner In this article, I want to talk about how projects should contribute to the firm’s health and help position the firm for future succ...(more)
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23: Being Still

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The wise project manager does not spend all his time talking about problems and issues and rushing about trying to fix things. He only speaks when it is necessary and demonstrates what needs to be done by being rather than by doing. The Wa...(more)
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The Failure Of Invariance

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When there is a discussion around PERT, the Central Limit Theorem, estimating durations, efforts, and costs, or any probabilistic or statistical aspect of a project, there is usually a fundamental flaw in the thought process.When we estimat...(more)
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Anatomy Of An Effective Project Manager

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Anatomy of an Effective Project Manager By Gary Hamilton, Gareth Byatt, and Jeff Hodgkinson It’s first thing in the morning, and you are preparing to interview prospective project managers for an open position on your team. Whether it is ...(more)
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Heavy Thinking

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I dislike giving out immediate answers when someone comes with me to help them solve a difficult problem. Sure, I can give you a quick answer which may or may not be the best possible answer, and possibly may not even be a good answer, but ...(more)
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Project Management In Everyday Life

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I use techniques I learned as a project manager in my everyday life all the time.  Do you? If you are learning to become a project manager, have you started experimenting with these tools and techniques on your own, so that when you do sta...(more)
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Volatility Fails As A Proxy For Risk

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"volatility per se, be it related to weather, timing of the morning newspaper, is simply a benign statistical probability factor that tells us nothing about risk until it is coupled with a consequence," - Robert H. Jeffrey, "A New Paradigm ...(more)
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90%?

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“Project management?  That’s just a lot of useless overhead!”   I remember hearing variations of this a lot years ago.  I don’t hear this much anymore (due at least in some part to the good work at PMI), but I hav...(more)
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Adapting Pareto Principle For Project Management

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Adapting Pareto Principle For Project Management By Kathlika Thomas There are not many observable instances in our natural surroundings where we find an equal distribution of anything of value. Population, wealth, workplace productivity, ev...(more)
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Potion 16 – The Yeti

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In episode 16 of Project Potion Dave Prior and Bas de Baar talk about coworking and using video for status reports. As defined by Wikipedia: “Coworking is a style of work which involves a shared working environment, sometimes an office ye...(more)
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The Essence Of Driving - A Crash Course In Project Management

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The Essence of Driving - A Crash Course in Project Management By Ivo Manolov About a year ago, I got feedback from my team that I needed to clarify what I meant by “drive this effort” or “lead that effort”. So I decided to create a ...(more)
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Management In A Post Industrial Age

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There are unlimited opinions floating around about the role of management. Many come from voices that would have management be removed from the process - the extreme agile point of view.For those looking to understand how management has and...(more)
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On The Origin Of Power Laws In Organizational phenomena

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Introduction Uncertainty is a fact of organizational life –   managers often have to make decisions based on uncertain or incomplete information. Typically such decisions are based on a mix of intuition, experience and blind guesswor...(more)
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How To Pick A Good Project Sponsor

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How to Pick a Good Project Sponsor By Peter Taylor Critical to any projects success is having a good project sponsor, but, like the saying goes ‘you can pick your friends but you can’t pick your relatives’ and the same is true of proj...(more)
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Stakeholder Adventure Maps. Drawing Smileys And Walls.

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Ah. Adventure Maps. I was happily surprised that Mondays post about Project Adventure Maps took so much interest. As it should. Away with spreadsheets, checklists and grid prisons. Bring on your crayons! So. Adventure Mapping. A highly play...(more)
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Critical Project Resources - The Software Architect

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Critical Project Resources - The Software Architect By Dave Nielsen In the early days of software development little thought was given to how the software applications and systems we built were architected. There were several reasons for th...(more)
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Project Theme Songs

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Quote Of The Day

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Knowing where you are most likely to fail can help set the stage for reducing the chances of failure. - Bilal M. Ayyub, Peter G. Prassinos, and John Etherton ...(more)
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What Will Kanban Bring In To Your Offshore Projects?

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During last couple of years we have been talking a lot about agile as a whole and specifically about SCRUM, how that help in offshore project environment to remove most the challenges introduced by the traditional waterfall environment.Whi...(more)
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Got A Story To Tell?

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I started work with a new client this week. One of our conversations revolved around adoption of the program we were implementing. This is a pretty common theme in a lot of projects I work on, how to get people to buy in to your vision.I ca...(more)
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