Project Management and Common Sense

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

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 [...]

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 [...]