Beach. Shorts. And Leadership.

Darren Rowse is an Internet celebrity. He is a full time blogger. He is making a good living from his blog ProBlogger.net. This Australian new media role model is writing about “how to make money from a blog”. He is talking about a dream some people have. Not necessarily a vision of spending your days …

Should A Project Manager Have A Duck?

If you are convinced communication in projects is essential, if you believe motivated people are good for a project, if you think that being able to “see” someone else’s point of view improves respect and communication, if you have a feeling that there must be something useful for you in “other” approaches and techniques… photo …

Mastering Three Spaces: Personal, Reputation And Project

Do you remember last years “The Four Dharmas Of Project Management“? “I learned that you cannot jump from the PMBoK directly to topics like “mental flexibility” and “emotional intelligence”. I am sorry to tell you, but most people cannot make that jump that fast. A path to “project enlightenment” has to be defined. Conveniently, I …

The PMI Agile Community of Practice

Different circumstances require different project approaches. Sometimes we need a piece of plan-driven, other times we need a bucket of agile. But we are always in need of Project Leaders that know how to handle all available project strategies. That is way I am very excited about the recently founded PMI Agile Community of Practice. …

Why Bother Looking At Social Media For Use In Projects

If you have no problems in your projects what so ever, consider yourself very lucky and please, keep on doing what you are doing. Project components – methods, processes, procedures, tools – should only be introduced when they either reduce a risk or create an opportunity. Always. If you have communication problems in your project and you …