It might not come as a surprise for you, after all those articles that I wrote about this subject, but if in a project I have to follow a procedure just-because-the-company-says-so we have a serious problem. I can try to comply, and I may even pull it of for a couple of days. But there [...]
If You Can Not Measure It, You Can Not Manage It
I really hated this management mantra. I thought it was boring, because it turned the cool Project Manager into an accountant. I thought it was naive, as management is a black art. I was convinced it could not be done, you cannot measure everything. Yeah I know by now I was utterly wrong.
Problem number one [...]
What Are You Looking For In Project Management Software?
Since yesterdays posting I am thinking about exactly what kind of features in software would be a real asset to a Project Manager? Features that would really free up the PM of tedious tasks or make a process far more superior than without the supporting system. Therefore my question to you, just before the weekend, [...]
Project Management 3.0
Photography by Mayr.
Josept Thornley explains the overall principles of Social Project Management, a term coined by Leisa Reichelt who has formed her ideas from building social software. Cutely dubbed “Project Management 2.0″, mimicking the current Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 hype. Sadly the formulation she chooses makes it standard “agile” (assuming the posting phrases here [...]
Why Societies And Projects Fail Or Succeed
With a title like that, I just had to read it. An answer to an ultimate question. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Wouldn’t you like to know why some ancient societies are extinct, while others are still full alive? It also might shed some light on why projects fail or succeed. Society [...]
