What would happen if your project raised the Pirate Flag? What would happen if you let the external auditor “walk the plank”? What would happen if every night you raid the cafeteria and stole all the snacks? My guess is, you’ll get fired. But it will also clearly differentiate your project team from the larger …
Now that Oprah joined Twitter, it is a serious medium. In Project Management we like “serious”. It sounds wise, professional, the proper thing to do. Now that Oprah is leading the masses towards Twitterland, we need a serious answer to why we should use this medium in our projects. The short answer: Twitter can enable …
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 …
By Ali Anani and Bas de Baar In our previous article we painted the image of people walking on the OODA highway, continuously performing OODA loops, interacting with the environment, in the search for information packages that help them adapt to changes. In this posting we want to extend this notion to the use of …