Project Potion. Meshing Up Projects.

Don’t you hate a 3000 page method description with in the footnote: “Oh yeah, by the way, you need to tailor this to the situation. You don’t need everything. Sort of. Kinda. We guess.” Hate it. Hate it. People put labels on methods. They give it a name. We need to categorize everything just to …

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 …

Why You Should Know What You’re About

“Know thyself” – Temple of Apollo at Delphi “I thought this was a blog about Project Management… uhm … Project Leadership?” Thanks for bringing that up. Yes it is. In my view a project is nothing more than a bunch of people interacting together to achieve a certain goal. And it’s the role of the …

The Real Project Shrink.

It’s weird when people know you from your blog. Conversations get strange. You’ve never met a person, yet you think you know them. You associate them with the agile crowd, the lean posse, the social media gurus or any other label in existence. And presto, you have a whole set of assumptions about your conversation …