Putting a bumper sticker that says, “Save the Planet” on your gasoline-guzzling, carbon dioxide-belching SUV doesn’t make the car environmentally friendly. The same goes for your project. Watching Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” at project kickoff, doesn’t earn you greenality points. Although. I am not sure. I think it should. Anyway. Dave Shirley and Rich …
Are you a Project Manager and looking for a way to contribute more to society? The PMI Educational Foundation might be right for you: “The purpose of the PMI Educational Foundation is to promote economic, educational, cultural, and social advancement through the application, development, and promotion of project management concepts, theories, and life skills.” In …
I’ve been telling you: yes, we can perform our projects smarter and cheaper, earn money, improve the environment, create a more healthy (sustainable) distribution of wealth and improve education in general. You really can make money and do good at the same time. Before you label me as “being way out there” or “wacko”, watch …
Wouldn’t it be great if software projects are done cheaper? Products and services could be cheaper. Through some amazing coincidence companies want the same thing. And the current economic climate has made them more eager to do so. For software projects, it’s easy and obvious on how to become cheaper more cost efficient: Reduce labor …
You know: a project is just a bunch of people working together to achieve a certain goal. It is the result of many different interactions. Interactions between individuals, but also between project and employees, project and company, company and market. Yeah, we don’t use the term “complexity” for nothing. It isn’t easy to make sense …