How Our Project Management Education And Recruitment Creates Stiffs When We Need Gumby's

Just for the record I have no problems with Project Management methods. Prince 2, PMBoK, SCRUM, Latest Lean Hype. They are all fine by me.

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The most interesting postings of this month can be attributed to Glen Alleman at Herding Cats. Although I don't always agree, these are provoking postings that trigger your brain, and helps you to become more aware of a question I asked earlier this month: "Why Do You Do What You Do in Project Management?"

Killing the Sacred Cows of Project Management
Three Simple Questions
Thermostatic Control
The BIG Question for any project management process
Sacred Cow: Teams

Read the links above and come back and think again: why do you do what you do?

You know that morning when you wake up and think "What the heck am I doing with my life?", "How did I get here?" and "What have I achieved?"

Scary stuff.

LazyMale, the blogger of Lap31, had that defining moment at his 30th birthday. So Lap31 is about him getting all reflective and stuff, and as he is a Project Manager that means he is also reflective about leadership, planning and running teams.

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This is a posting in The Fish Pond Metaphor series by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar

As projects start and end within organizations the demand for employees fluctuates. It seems that in certain times the workforce is just too small to handle all tasks, and in slow times many employees are doing nothing. With change and with projects come the tidal movement of need of labor force. Most projects will be done in times of change, when economic forces are up or down. Times of stability don't call for much projects.

Hibernation: After Busy Times, Leave Them Alone

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Change is the norm. Change is happening fast. The projects you are managing are not your daddy's projects. To be able to handle the ever morphing environment, you need to become agile, flexible as you have never been before. ""If you are talking about "agile project managers", this would be the key aspect of my definition. A project manager that has a lot of mental models about projects available, and can adopt his mindset according the situation without problems, is what I call a true "agile" PM." I wrote previously.

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State of Indiana Makes Using Waterfall SDLC’s a Criminal Offense

”Waterfall software development lifecycles have terrorized technology projects in this state for too long,” Governor Mitch Daniels said at a simple signing ceremony held at a meeting of the Central Indiana chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI). “This bill will end the tyranny of big upfront planning, big upfront design, and litigation style change management.”

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