If you enter the Island of Projectistan for the first time, what would you encounter? Projectistan is the habitat of Project Managers. It is the Land Of Projects. It is coined by Jon Whitty from University of Southern Queensland. I think we need a map. As I see it we have the United Agilists, the …
You join a new organization and you are required to sing the corporate hymn at the start of every meeting. Or. Someone next to you is humming a catchy tune. Cheesy. Or stupid. But catchy. He is humming this in the background once in a while. Big difference. You might end up humming or singing …
This is post number 500. So. Let’s go. Earlier this year I moved this blog to another domain. I switched from blog.SoftwareProjects.org to BasDeBaar.com. Three years ago I started out writing about software projects, but earlier this year I realized that I am actually talking about social systems. Not limited to software. Not limited to …
I don’t care what kind of method you are using. Well, I do care. Well, I don’t. Really. I am much more concerned with the effects a certain strategy or approach has on human interaction. Recently I tried to explain this with an over the top geeky metaphor at Craig Browns’ excellent Better Projects-blog: “… …
At the upcoming PMI Benelux Day in Antwerp October 2nd I will be hosting a workshop called: “Stakeholder Management: We’re Off To See The Wizard”. If you are attending, it would be awesome if you dropped by. You can learn a lot about Stakeholder Management from The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy has a problem: she …