Archive for the 'Project Management' Category

Project Management and the Myth of the Straight Line

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Project Management and Common Sense

Project Management Tools: The Subtle Flaws

Friday, October 30th, 2009

The alarming momentum of Microsoft’s Project blinding us to its profoundly incorrect premises.

The Latest, Greatest PMIBOK: Five Good Changes. And Three That Missed the Bus.

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

The PMI in 2008 finished overhauling its  four standards (PMBOK, Program, Portfolio, and OPM3).  I took the key thrusts, and referred to the 2002 Koskela and Howell critique for context.  Below are the five positive standouts: 1. Candor on the need for continuing work to make PMI-BOK more relevant and actually used. 2. Five-point criteria [...]

The analyst’s acuity. A humorist’s irony. Hearing the silence between the notes. Seeing both object and space, in minimalist and in Japanese art. Holding to the values beyond conflicting goals; reaching for the larger frame beyond the crisis. Spotting the patterns, navigating the chaos. How to think, how to manage.

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