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Opinions
Perspectives, Passions & Peeves
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Lost and Found
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David Schmaltz
(August 11)
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How did we come to believe we should manage projects the way we do? In the fourth and final installment of “The Secret Life of Projects” series, the author looks for insights among the great book stacks of the Library of Congress, finding some guidance in the laws of situation and integration. But no secret.[more]
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The Secret Life Of Projects, Part 3
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David Schmaltz
(August 3)
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Projects have their share of fertile fallacies, and the profession of project work might be encapsulated into this small insight, that our theories of how things are supposed to work are probably wrong, and wrong in ways that we could not possibly understand yet.[more]
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Lizard Brains and Linchpins
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Bob Tarne, PMP
(July 15)
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The latest book from best-selling author Seth Godin takes a look at how individuals can make a difference in their organizations. Here’s an overview of “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?” — and how project managers might begin to apply its core ideas.[more]
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Project Management in the Year 2020
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William R. Duncan
(July 7)
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There have always been projects. There will always be projects. And they will always be difficult to do. But the profession of project management continues to evolve. Here’s one longtime practitioner’s take of the current state of project management, and how it could change in 10 years.[more]
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There’s Magic in Them Projects
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Geoff Crane
(June 16)
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As project managers, we use the language of spreadsheets, performance metrics and percent complete. These painstaking details are essential to the job, but they can also function as noise, hounding our teams in lockstep to ordinary results instead of truly outstanding achievements.[more]
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The Apathy Cycle
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Geoff Crane
(June 2)
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When a workplace becomes apathetic, new ideas die on the vine. Whether or not senior management cares, project leaders must take responsibility for creating a culture of trust and collaboration around and below them. It starts with supporting those who are willing to stick their necks out on behalf of the project.[more]
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Tool-Free Agile
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Craig Larman and Bas Vodde
(May 13)
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When adopting agile principles for projects, try to avoid the lure of automated software, which often defeats or dilutes real change in the interactions and thinking of team members by reinforcing a command-and-control culture.[more]
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The Secret Life of Projects, Part 2
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David Schmaltz
(April 29)
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Finding the right “fit” for your project, rather than following some previously derived ‘One Best Way’, might well be your most critical success factor as a project leader. It requires simultaneously balancing contradictions and it demands a different way of social interacting. How well does your project fit?[more]
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The Secret Life of Projects
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David Schmaltz
(April 15)
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Maturity models, metrics and misleading metaphors have encumbered project leaders and teams. They miss the essence of knowledge work, which can’t be tidily represented in a PERT or Gantt chart. We need to explore different models to supplement and better guide our project efforts.[more]
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The Risk Definition Debate
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David Hillson, PMP
(April 7)
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A new international risk management standard reignites a debate over how to define risk.[more]
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