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 …
In this episode of “The Project Shrink” I am talking to Jerry Manas. Jerry is an organizational architect and author of two books: “Napoleon on Project Management” and “Managing The Gray Areas”. We are talking about the “gray areas”. Managing projects is all about finding balances, finding the right touch for the right occasion. Jerry …
When I got a PR notice last week telling me that the “Dictionary of Project Management Terms” currently is in its third edition, I went blank… Why do I need a dictionary? Why not just use “simple” language? So, I asked the author, J. LeRoy Ward … [Project Shrink]: “Why should one learn the specific …
For me, THE most influential book of the first half of 2008 is definitely “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Craig Janet reminded my with his post yesterday of this book, and the fact that it was due time to give it also some blog time on Project …
Photography: Sylt August by knudsburg With large groups and a lot of time pressure you don’t always spend enough effort in communicating the overall perspective of the project. Too bad, because emphasizing the “bigger picture” helps stakeholders to keep in line and, if done properly, enhance motivation among the team (they wanna be part of …