How To Make Complex Stuff Less Complex?

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 Self by Havi Brooks and Penelope Trunk by, well, herself. Every …

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What Does Your Swing Look Like? Aligning Expectations By Drawing.

Different expectations of the end result among stakeholders and project team members can be a huge problem in projects. There is even a famous cartoon about this: it is about the customer expecting a swing on a tree, and all the different interpretations of it by others. You can visit ProjectCartoon.com to view this cartoon …

Filtering Information: Why You Cannot See Everything

I am tired. I am exhausted from all the information that is poured over me daily. I already stopped watching television (except for Knight Rider). I only listen to non-stop music radio stations. Sometimes it feels like being hosed down by information. In the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?” Andrew B Newberg, MD …

Organizational Map of New US Government

As of today, Barack Obama will be at the center of the US government (yay!). If you want to have a good overview of how he is linked to all other governmental entities, I recommend this dynamic network visualization of the US Gov map. It takes 5 seconds to load and it will allow you …

Mind, Complex Systems And Information Visualization

This is a outline why mind, complex systems and information visualization are essential topics to cover in understanding projects. Reality doesn’t fit into our head. It is too complex for us to comprehend. Our mechanism to cope with this problem: we think “Gaussian”, we stereotype. It is the human need to categorize everything. We just …