Project Management: We Need Gumby!

How Our Project Management Education And Recruitment Creates Stiffs When We Need Gumby’s Just for the record I have no problems with Project Management methods. Prince 2, PMBoK, SCRUM, Latest Lean Hype. They are all fine by me.

Killing Sacred PM Stuff

The most interesting postings of this month can be attributed to Glen Alleman at Herding Cats. Although I don’t always agree, these are provoking postings that trigger your brain, and helps you to become more aware of a question I asked earlier this month: “Why Do You Do What You Do in Project Management?” Killing …

Proud Postings: Lap31

You know that morning when you wake up and think “What the heck am I doing with my life?”, “How did I get here?” and “What have I achieved?” Scary stuff. LazyMale, the blogger of Lap31, had that defining moment at his 30th birthday. So Lap31 is about him getting all reflective and stuff, and …

Lessons From The Pond For The Project Workforce

This is a posting in The Fish Pond Metaphor series by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar As projects start and end within organizations the demand for employees fluctuates. It seems that in certain times the workforce is just too small to handle all tasks, and in slow times many employees are doing nothing. With …

3 Steps Towards Becoming An Agile Project Manager

Change is the norm. Change is happening fast. The projects you are managing are not your daddy’s projects. To be able to handle the ever morphing environment, you need to become agile, flexible as you have never been before. “”If you are talking about “agile project managers”, this would be the key aspect of my …