I’d love to know what your hopes are for this new year!

I think it is a great way to get to know each other.

1. Who do you want to meet?
2. Where do you want to go?
3. Which question do you want to be answered?

As a little incentive (bribe :)) I will give an ebook version of my book "Surprise! Now You're A Software Project Manager" to the most original entry (so make sure you include your email address in the comment box).

Happy New Year!

And thank you for reading Project Shrink!

Oh yeah…

1. Every single one of you, or just Al Gore
2. Argentina (of course every single country, but that would be a lovely start)
3. How can we make global, virtual, mobile projects work?

I try to focus. I really do.

I just want to cover Project Management. I should have become an expert on "Gantt Chart Coloring Schemes". Writing "100 Places You Can Stick Your Procedure" or "Six Golden Rules To Avoid Work" (I actually did write that one).

Instead I am searching for a "proper whole for PM. I am looking for a true Project Management Body Of Knowledge, one that is based on psychology, sociology, organizational behavior, complex adaptive systems …" Ladidadida.

Good thinking, Bubba.

Photography by MikeOcampo.
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Perhaps some of you have noticed … I have taken an extensive break from blogging. I had to recharge the creative juices. And there is no better way to do this than traveling through the south of India!

I have visited some amazing places in the provinces of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Goa. If you need an inspiring environment to clear your head, this is the place to go! I have enough notes in my Moleskin notebooks to last me another blogging year

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Craig Brown and I are conversing on project management, and in particular professional development. The conversations is across both our blogs.

Dear Craig,

This time I have to explain why I am blogging and why I am yelling "Projects are about humans. Deal with that!" It is the only way I can answer your question in your previous response about project management communities and industry organizations:

"Are you an outsider looking in? Are you an insider selling something?"
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A short while ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Maria Gajewski of Never The Same River Twice. You can read the entire interview on her blog. She asked me

Photography by Ron Almog.

• How I came to the conclusion that “Projects Are About Humans, Now Deal With That!”?
• Why it is this so important to have mental flexibility and what is one thing that you can do right now to increase our mental flexibility?
• How a project manager can help his or her team increase their resilience?
• What will be happening here at Project Shrink in the next few months?

… and more.

Hop over, read the interview, and while you are there, subscribe to this blog about personal and organizational change.