Now is a good time for reflection. 2007 was an exciting year for me and SoftwareProjects.org. This year I started searching for a proper whole for PM. I am looking for a true Project Management Body Of Knowledge, one that is based on psychology, sociology, organizational behavior, complex adaptive systems, and whatever might help us …
Happy Holidays! Some reading for under the tree, or in the room away from your relatives Countering Perverse Incentives in Project Management “One of the hallmark traits of corporate IT is the abundance of perverse incentives.” Great read. Rhythms, Boundaries, and Containers: Creative Dynamics of Asynchronous Group Life Monumental article by Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz …
The following books influenced me the most this year: Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond A History of the Middle East by Peter Mansfield Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5 by Timothy Ferriss …
As a fundamental model for projects I want to use the notion of a Complex Adaptive System (CAS). In this post I will outline what this means; what are the properties of a CAS and how are they beneficial in our quest to search for answers to project problems? Why CAS In The First Place? …
A Gantt chart groups human resources with specific tasks. Further, it allows the project manager to identify dependencies between tasks, laying out the entire project in a timeline fashion. People championing the Gantt chart will tell you that it can be difficult or impossible for the project manager to correctly identify the critical path without …