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 [...]

Tracking Performance in Uncertainty

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Decisions, Execution and Deliverables This series targets three topics (decision making, strategic execution, and project management).  You will also find links to thinkers, books, tools and other resources. Looking at the recent years’ book releases, we see a shifting from rigidly closed decision and management models, to open-ended approaches and analytical tools. Why?  Information now [...]

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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