For two years there is a conversation in the comments of The Project Shrink that pops up once in a while. It’s one of my favorites. Why do we do what we do? Are our industry’s best practices really that, or do we merely say they are because as a PM we are expected to …
At the PMI EMEA Global Congress in Amsterdam I had the pleasure of talking to Brian Weiss, VP of Product Management at Project Management Institute. He explains his view on the role the PMBoK guide plays in the Project Management profession. The last couple of weeks were an amazing experience for me: I became a …
This is really my favorite Project Management question to which I don’t have a real answer: are our industry’s best practices really that, or do we merely say they are because as a PM we are expected to say so? You know that when you fall, you experience pain. You have felt that as a …
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Here is an interesting point that Lauri Koskela and Greg Howell mention in their article I forgot to mention in my previous posting about the fundamental problems concerning plan-driven methods. The lack of information about how the project plan should actually be performed. For example, the PMBok guide is amazingly brief about this. So, management …