“Once a photograph of the earth, taken from the outside is available, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.” – Sir Fred Hoyle in 1948. What do you draw when you are visualizing a project on a whiteboard? I draw an arrow from left to right that represents a …
I like blogs more than books. Well. Certain types of blogs. The best blogs are like Desperate Housewives, The Sopranos and Six Feet Under. You can enjoy an individual episode, but true bliss only happens by watching every single episode from every single season from these fabulous television series. My two favorite blogs are Fluent …
Over a year ago I started writing about Project Adventure Maps. As not everyone likes to receive information the same way, an alternative metaphor to talk about projects would at least be worth exploring. Many months later, the list of exercises that use the adventure travel metaphor has grown. It is time for an overview. …
A year ago I bought the book “Visual Meetings” (doodling for team productivity) and a Moleskine notebook (of course) on my way back from Washington to Amsterdam. At the stopover in New York I drew this: And this: It changed my work. Really. Before I just had a stack of Moleskine notebooks (what else) full …
The blog archive is my extended brain. It helps me to remind what I was thinking. What was I thinking? It helps me to remind what I think is a true “agile” PM. I decided on this four years ago: “To be able to create assumptions and being able to reason to what happens based …