It is almost Pangea Day. A unique opportunity to broaden your mind. Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film.

Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film.

A short while ago I got an email that stated "Organizations reinvent the same knowledge over and over again because of poor cataloging, traceability and redundancy in the knowledge that is created." Now that is someone who has been around the block!

Within projects, from requirements to design to code, it is always the same problem… a problem we all know from Kindergarten. As a kid I played this little game at school we called 'telephone line'. Twenty kids were hurdled up into a circle.

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This is a slideshow called Shift Happens. It sums up the "Western" naivety about the rise of India, China and other countries. I am from Europe, and I thought that I was quite aware… but if you read those numbers! WOW! Simply WOW! Just click through the slideshow.

I am actually curious how people from India or China look upon this presentation… You must have been aware… you must have known this for ages … or not?

Love to hear your point of view …

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I was brainstorming for some ideas to keep me busy the next few months (only got a gazillion ideas, currently prioritizing them :)), and I came up with an idea that I used for my first blogging experience… yep, it was still 2004, and I had this illusive idea to compare project people with animals… below the only entry that came out of that brainwave…

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Today Better Projects posted an intriguing article debunking the myth of “experienced project managers can deal more effectively with complex software projects". They refer to a recent article in HBR magazine, “The Experience Trap”, that basically says that experienced project manager do not outperform less experienced PMs because they stopped learning.

Photography by Worak.
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It is easy to compare team members to cogs of a machine, but in real life situations, not all these ‘cogs’ get along well. People from different backgrounds make for different personalities and these personalities can clash…a scenario that tends to spoil the working atmosphere.

To make sure there is a good working relationship between team members there are some ice breakers that can help the cause along. Team discussions can help and so can tools such as Johari. The tool helps map personalities with a fixed list of adjectives.

Each individual can map his own personality and others can map the characteristics they see in that person as well. While seemingly simplistic, the tool tells us a lot about how others see us along with giving team members some feedback about them as well. It can be a tool for self realization, and one that can help people gauge how to improve their outlook as well as better understand colleagues.