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June 2008

Project Shrink Links: June 2008

Currently I am tracking 90 blogs related to Project Management. Last month I found these ten postings highly remarkable and interesting:
It’s the sociology, telecommuters
Silos & Empires
The Emerging and Strange Alliance Between Boomers and Millennials
7 Reasons for the Rapid Growth of Project Management in IT
Engaging middle management in “Enterprise 2.0?
The Difference Difference Makes
Trading Places with Indian [...]

Dear Craig – The Shrink In Me

Craig Brown writes a blog at BetterProjects.net. Craig and I are regular readers of each other’s sites and now we are having a conversation from site to site.
Dear Craig,
Of course, we do need more than training alone to improve Project Managers and everyone else involved in projects. From the top of my head: “discipline”. [...]

Updated Model Of Projects And Project Management

It has been almost ten months since I outlined my last model of Project Management. The importance of having some kind of mental image about projects and Project Management may not come as a surprise. We are long due for an update on how I think everything links together.

Photography by Elvire R.
People Operating In A [...]

There Is No Iron Triangle In Project Management

There is no Iron Triangle in Project Management. In PM we learn the holy trinity of the triple constraint, the concept that we are operating within borders, and that those borders are interdependent. Oh yeah, and “triple” or “triangle” indicates that there are three. Although the image is powerful to instruct, it is plain false. [...]

Project Potion: The Recipe

Different project circumstances require different approaches to ensure optimum effectiveness. As mentioned over and over again on this blog, it is the people who largely determine these circumstances, and you have to tailor your project approach to the particular situation. For this you can make use of techniques and tools from different existing methods by [...]

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