Projects Are About Humans. Now Deal With That!

Project Shrink Links 23-01-2008

Is Project Management Passe?
"Gartner isn't saying that PM is going the way of the Dodo Bird as a discipline or skill set; to the contrary, they are saying it has/will essentially become commoditized as a common element of the general management repertoire ” think more along the lines of gulls and starlings. I have to agree on that point."

Is Project Management a Fad?
"An emerging theme that I have encountered in conversations of late is the perception that project management is becoming the latest management fad. Interestingly, my reaction has ranged from "Is it?" to "Already?" to "Why did it take this long?"

"Stockholm Syndrome" in project execution and management
"What do you think on the Stockholm Syndrome in project execution and management? Did you ever experience or observed it? Did you ever try to help? The Stockholm Syndrome is the behavior of kidnap victims who become sympathetic to their captors. "

Motivation in Virtual Teams: Lessons from Virtual Worlds
"Last week I read a report called Leadership in Games and at Work: Implications for the Enterprise of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games (MMOGs), put out by an organization called Seriosity. Their study investigated the lessons that MMOGs might have for leadership in the workplace, with the suggestion that experience in MMOGs or virtual worlds crosses over to real work and leadership situations."

Small Team Collaboration: Seven Key Beliefs To Work As A Great Team
"What makes great teams be such? Is it a matter of coincidental matters that some teams perform systematically above average or being a high performance team is due to specific traits of those that make the team up?"

Managing IT Projects
"I'm often asked how we manage IT projects. Do we have an Enterprise Project Management Office? A tracking Gantt chart for every project?"

Shameless Self Promotion: Me On Better Projects
Thanks Craig :) "So I asked Bas, where he sees Project Sociology fitting in to that spectrum, and why is it he seems to becoming an agile enthusiast?"

2 Comments so far

  1. Raven February 1st, 2008 5:46 pm

    Lots of good stuff - thanks for sharing while you've been so busy!

  2. Bas de Baar February 2nd, 2008 12:34 pm

    Glad you like it… Still a fan of your blog too :)

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