2008 — March — Project Shrink

Project Shrink Links 30-03-2008

March 30th, 2008 | Category: Sites

To Bet Or Not To Bet: How The Brain Learns To Estimate Risk

"Planning entails making predictions. In an uncertain environment, however, our predictions often don't pan out. And erroneous prediction of risk often leads to unusual behaviour: euphoria or excessive gambling when risk is underestimated, and panic attacks or depression when we predict that things are riskier than they really are."

The Project Cartoon

Create your own version of this famous Project Management Cartoon.

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Proud Postings: Eric D Brown

March 26th, 2008 | Category: Proud

This is the first posting in a new series called Proud Postings. In it I ask several other bloggers in the Project Management arena "What are the 3 postings you are most proud of?" or "What are your favorite postings?". This kick off is provided by Eric D Brown and I really like his suggestions. Stuff I wish I wrote

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Management And Meditation

March 24th, 2008 | Category: Fish Pond, ProjectSociology

I tried to get around it. I tried to avoid it. But in this case I can run, but I am surely unable to hide. So I decided to face it head on, get it out in the open. I just have to make the connection between training your mind for adaption, as suggested in earlier posts, and meditation. There, I said it. Now I probably get haunted by metric fetishist and named Project Swami. I will be strong.

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Introducing The Fish Pond

March 23rd, 2008 | Category: Fish Pond

The world is changing dramatically, fast and beyond everything we have seen. Globalization and technology have introduced more diversity, more dynamics and more interdependencies than ever before. This provides project management, and management in general, with a challenge. How to survive in this environment? Together with dr Ali Anani, I am taking on this challenge with an attempt to provide some structure and some answers for management practitioners.

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Swimming Upstream The Information Flow

March 22nd, 2008 | Category: Fish Pond

by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar

In Fish And OODA Loops we introduced fish schooling as an important part of the Fish Pond Metaphor. Schooling mimics human tendency to organize and view our selves in groups of people. This leaves the question of how individual fish operate within a school resulting in one organic adaptive entity? Our preliminary answer is the topic of this posting.