Rather than a technical article, this time I have interviewed Michael, co-founder of this blog with me. Sometimes we overlook the personal part of project management and I wanted to see what I might learn by asking Michael a few questions...
Intro As project managers, one mantra we have is that a goal without an action plan is just a wish. Fair enough to say that sometimes it is tough to come up with a plan when everything seems unpredictable. To make...
What if there were a way to do less and to achieve more in your projects? Everything starts with the project scope and how we negotiate and handle it. Early on in the project everything seems possible. But an extensive scope is like noise.
“Bad things happen.” “Nobody could have seen it coming.” “This is just a complex project”… This is what you will hear in the absence of risk management. To some degree, everybody is already familiar with the basic logic of risk management....
Project management covers a vast field of knowledge. One only needs to take a look at the index of the PMBOK to get a glimpse of this. As a new project manager, it is not unusual to feel that the company...
We humans are prone to think that we are close to a certain solution when in fact we are still far away. This leads us to continue to invest time in one task without noticing that we will never come to...
routine (noun) Fixed habit or method in action; the habitual doing of the same things in the same way; unvarying procedure or conduct. From http://www.finedictionary.com/routine.html Projects are complex by nature. The critical path not only goes through tasks and their dependencies but...
There is an old game called “two truths and one lie”. It goes like this: a person makes three statements. From the three, two statements will be true and one will be a lie. Other players must then guess which of...
It is not uncommon for project managers to underestimate the value of a project charter. Some people are not even aware of what a project charter is, which is unfortunate, as it is a game changer. Project charter is a game...
