First Day At PMI EMEA Congress With Dave Prior

Just came back from the first day at the PMI EMEA Congress here in Amsterdam. Love it! Met some great people like Dave Prior, the author of the Drunken PM blog and the ITT SIG Podcast, and a big agile fan. Great day for him. On this first day of the conference a lot of …

Everything a Project Manager Should Know About Social Media

In this episode of The Project Shrink Podcast I am addressing two questions concerning Project Managers and social media: what is the problem that social media is solving and why is it suited to tackle this problem? This is an introduction to my talk at the PMI EMEA Congress in Amsterdam on the 20th of …

Consultative Selling And Customers’ Needs Identification

A year ago I published a series of postings on this blog about “The Fish Pond“-metaphor. Its purpose is to make some sense of complexity, humans, projects and globalization. I wrote the series together with dr. Ali Anani. This great experience shaped the way I currently think about complexity and human networks. He recently published …

The Partial Project Manager

In this posting I am going to tell you what the main theme of my blog is… wow. Do I really have an answer? Six weeks ago I released the first draft of my ebook “Project Shrink: Linear Edition“. The reason for publishing unfinished work is to get early feedback. I am very happy to …