This week Project Shrink is a year old. Yah! During this year (and actually in the 5 years before) I am obsessed with this Project Management riddle: Photography by kk+. There is a large bucket of Project Management methods and techniques We face a world of infinite complexity A Project Manager only has one pair …
My monthly column at TechTarget.com is up: “Software project managers should allow for experimentation” (original title: We Have No Clue. So What To Do?). Photography by Ctd 2005. “The solution is so simple. But somehow, “experimenting” lost its appeal. Management (with a capital “M”) doesn’t allow uncertainties. The whole quality hype didn’t help us either, …
[sarcasm] The professionals enter the building, their suits, hair and shoes all shiny and stuff. They roll out their charts, the flashy binders, and difficult words. They are very expensive, so they must be good. Photography by AnyJazz65. They try to avoid too much contact with the users; the dinosaurs that perform the “normal” work, …
Change is all around us. It always has been and it always will be. As a Project Manager you have to make sure your project team satisfies a defined business goal. Change within a project and its surroundings is a given. The PM should not question change, he should not resist change and he should …
In this episode of my series “Proud Postings” not a Project Management specific blog, but a real exciting blog about handling change. I am talking about “Never The Same River Twice” by Maria Gajewski. The world is changing fast. What can you do about it? That is the fundamental question behind this blog. It is …