Last year, I summarized my ideas from 2008 in a post called “Second Turn: Structure For Resilience“. This year I expanded on those ideas, putting more emphasis on communication, culture and the role of the Project Leader. This post is my attempt to summarize the main concepts. It’s a work in process, so feedback is …
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 …
A year ago I published a series of postings on this blog about “The Fish Pond“-metaphor. Its purpose is to make some sense of complexity, humans, projects and globalization. I wrote the series together with dr. Ali Anani. This great experience shaped the way I currently think about complexity and human networks. He recently published …
In this posting I am going to tell you what the main theme of my blog is… wow. Do I really have an answer? Six weeks ago I released the first draft of my ebook “Project Shrink: Linear Edition“. The reason for publishing unfinished work is to get early feedback. I am very happy to …
Craig from Better Projects asked me and other PM / BA bloggers a question that took me almost 3 weeks to answer (Am I getting slower? Approaching almost 40 so …:): “Recall the first and last analysis model you used at work. The first model I can recall using was a SWOT analysis back in …