This post is intended as my Grande Finale of 2008. That year, I learned that you cannot jump from the PMBoK directly to topics like “mental flexibility” and “emotional intelligence”. A path to “project enlightenment” has to be defined. With this article I am outlining a training route, using the Buddhist “Turnings of The Wheel Of Dharma” as a metaphor.
Some weeks ago I had to introduce new IT employees into the magical world of Project Management methods. These guys were completely new to the industry, so references to “real project life” were not going to save me (like it normally does ). I finally came up with the following start to kick of the …
I am currently preparing an introduction for IT people in PM methods. While struggling to come up with a way to provide a fast overview of a method, I came up with the following: the four mechanisms of PM methods. A short description of how these mechanisms function within a certain method, works quite well …