Project Shrink Links 23-8-2007

Good Project Management Can Advance Your Career It seems that all the skills that employers are looking for are accumulated in the Project Management profession. Rock on! Project Management and Project Leadership “It means that project managers should manage first and lead only when its their turn. Let the team members take leadership roles when …

A Good Project Manager Is A Happy One

I read an interesting discussion about what makes a Project Manager outstanding? After reading this, I still hold my position that I am holding for many years now : a Project Manager should make every stakeholder happy. Including the PM self. The better a person can reach this goal, the better Project Manager he is. …

4 Things To Look For In Project Management Methods

I am currently preparing an introduction for IT people in PM methods. While struggling to come up with a way to provide a fast overview of a method, I came up with the following: the four mechanisms of PM methods. A short description of how these mechanisms function within a certain method, works quite well …

Project Shrink Links 16-8-2007

Opinion: The Agility Factor Those IT professionals and vendors that decide that agility is not their strength are going to be doing business not with end-user businesses, but with IT utilities. 10 Really Good Reasons to Become a Female in IT! It is really the curse of our profession: the lack of female colleagues. Last …

Project Management Cliches

Seth Godin has created a list of business cliches, language you hear to often in companies. It inspired me to the image below. You know any PM cliches?