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.

Project Scheduling - 80% Done, 80% Remaining

"Dont track monolithic tasks with percent complete. You may need to report percent-complete on monolithic roll-ups of multiple tasks to managers - that is fine. Make sure youre tracking the individual tasks (or that you trust the people on your team to do that and roll it up for you). Dont use this article to enable micro-managers. Use this article to avoid deluding yourself about the actual progress on your project or release."

Scrum Project Management as a Simple Rules Framework

"The Scrum methodology is elegant in its simplicity. It teaches us that when processes are not stable, and outcomes cannot be predicted within sufficient tolerance, we cannot use planning techniques that rely on predictability. We must rely on observation. We must adjust the processes as we go and guide them to create our desired outcomes."

It's All In The Head

"Why do we use so many templates in project management? Great question isn't it? … But why oh why do I say its all in the head? On two recent project management programmes participants have said that this is where they keep information!"

Freedom & Responsibility

"The word courage is often applied to soldiers but that is an active form of courage that tends to get people killed. The other form of courage is a passive or inner courage and that keeps people alive. Which of the two is better?"