If I keep telling you all to experiment, it’s only fair that I try something new on this blog too… how about adding audio? We can even call it “The Project Shrink Podcast” … WOOOHOOOO! Or is that too much? Anyway… presenting my recent interview with Paul Ritchie. Paul leads global project management operations at …
How do you get your team all fired up and motivated? The answer might be: Hot Causes and Cool Solutions! In his book “Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations“, author Hayagreeva Rao explains that … “… if you want to mobilize networks of people and markets to embrace and spread an idea, …
Now is the time to work on your “bounce back”. It is time to work on personal resilience. Whatever your take is on the current economic climate, we can all agree: times are changing. And we all know … (right?) … the secret to coping with change is: MIND + NETWORK! “The resilience from every …
This is a outline why mind, complex systems and information visualization are essential topics to cover in understanding projects. Reality doesn’t fit into our head. It is too complex for us to comprehend. Our mechanism to cope with this problem: we think “Gaussian”, we stereotype. It is the human need to categorize everything. We just …
Within Project Management we use a lot of metrics. The metrics will provide some relatively objective “description” on how the project is doing. They are the Project Managers’ seismometer, they record if your project world is rocking, and how hard. Traditionally our metrics are focused on time and money. But how about that all important …