When a lot of people use the same solution successfully to a common problem, we give it a label “best practice”. This is sometimes a good thing. What we learn doesn’t go to waste. However. Practices perceived as best practices become worst practices under changing environments. Assumptions on how things work under certain conditions can …
I talked before about the importance of getting into the habit of leaving comments on posts and other media. My friend Ali Anani takes it even a step further in his great presentation “Comments On Slideshare Their Mapping and Value Added. Comments On SlideShare Their Mapping And Value Added View more presentations from Ali Anani. …
We all learn important things from the people we work with. One of the first things I learned was to celebrate early. If you have the funds in your project budget for one team party, do it at the beginning of the project, not at the end. Celebrate you are going to work together. Fun, …
Movies are a fantastic metaphor to describe the relationship between projects and team members. Every great movie has a compelling story, one people really want to follow. Every great movie has a cast of actors that contribute to the story with their own specific properties. But what about the organizations in which the projects take …
A year ago I was raving about LiquidPlanner 1.0: “If there is a playground for project management software, this is the cool kid to hang out with. It is Web 2.0, it is cool, it is innovative and it is just what our profession is looking for. Look at their site to see what I …