Because it’s the end of the month, again! March was a special month for Project Shrink as I launched the Project Shrink Videocast on iTunes and released the first edition of my new free unbook. During all this I was tracking 129 blogs (I cleaned up the list). In March 2009 I found the following …
Ants don’t need central control to get the work coordinated. They use a simple and effective way to communicate and make individual decisions based upon the information. Ants are hardwired to work like this. Nature provided them all with the same set of rules in their body. Every leg has a natural tattoo describing how …
** This is a guest post by John P Vajda, PMP. Find out more about John at the bottom. ** How does one become more Agile? The question beckons any project manager worth his/her weight in PMP training books. We all ask ourselves how we can better deal with uncertainty. How can we embrace the …
Looking for an excuse to try Twitter? How about getting a chance to win a free copy of “SharePoint for Project Management: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint“? This week I am running a short contest on Twitter and I am giving away 5 copies of this great book by …
When talking about communication in projects we are all familiar with peer-to-peer, one person talking to another person, or mailing or shouting or sending pigeons. You have a sender and a receiver you can identify, a sender has to locate a receiver before it can initiate communication. Especially when the project is viewed as a …