What is a project? Part 4: Non-definitional elements
This post drills into the detail of the many attributes of projects that are non-definitional, but are critical to the effective management of projects.
Read Moreby adam | Feb 23, 2020 | Project Management Concepts | 0 |
This post drills into the detail of the many attributes of projects that are non-definitional, but are critical to the effective management of projects.
Read Moreby adam | Dec 19, 2019 | Project Management Concepts | 0 |
This post reviews the reasons we don’t need specified elements and the implications of removing them. We’ll do this by looking at other definitions.
Read Moreby adam | Dec 18, 2019 | Project Management Concepts | 0 |
Continuing the series What is a Project. In this post, we unpack in more detail the main elements of this simple definition of a project.
Read Moreby adam | Dec 17, 2019 | Manifesto for Action, Project Management Concepts | 0 |
This post is a working list of core analysis concepts. These concepts will give us the tools to build new ways of project management practice.
Read Moreby adam | Dec 16, 2019 | Project Management Concepts | 0 |
Last post I laid out the “Manifesto for Action”. I want to establish a broad and...
Read Moreby adam | Nov 25, 2016 | Project Management Concepts, Project Management Skills, Uncategorized | 0 |
Scrum and Agile Guru Mike Cohn wrote in his weekly Agile Tips email that we should mark the moment to focus on what our teams have achieved. Triggered by the bigtime Thanksgiving celebration in the USofA, Mike wrote how we often...
Read Moreby adam | May 11, 2016 | Project Management Concepts | 0 |
I was introduced to the “Dunning-Kruger Effect” last night whilst listening to my first edition of a podcast called “This American Life”, as I listened to the story on the way to pick up my son from...
Read Moreby adam | Feb 5, 2016 | PAP #1, Project Action Hacks, Project Action Principles, Project Management Concepts | 0 |
Following on from the initial post on Project Acceleration, this post covers the second aspect of accelerating any project, which is to have a precise and current understanding of your project’s status and outlook against...
Read Moreby adam | Feb 4, 2016 | PAP #1, Project Management Concepts | 0 |
Last post was a short clarification of the scope and purpose of the initial post on Project Acceleration, This post covers the first key aspect of accelerating any project, which is to have a plan for how you are going to go...
Read Moreby adam | Feb 4, 2016 | PAP #1, Project Action Hacks, Project Action Principles, Project Management Concepts | 0 |
This short post clarifiies the objective of the Project Acceleration series of posts. It outlines three types of Project Acceleration activity and identifies the Change Request type as the objective of this series.
Read Moreby adam | Feb 3, 2016 | Project Management Concepts, Project Management Skills, Software Projects | 0 |
Suddenly you need to accelerate the delivery of your project! You no longer have until, say, 15th May, you now need to deliver by the end of April. Or maybe the middle of April!! So now you have to think about if, and how, your project can be accelerated. So, what can you do? How do you determine viability of acceleration, without ending up in a nett loss of momentum or progress, even if the acceleration process doesn’t materialize? Over the next few posts I will look at the key aspects of this question, and provide recommendations on how this can be approached.
Read Moreby adam | Nov 27, 2015 | Project Management Concepts, State of Project Management | 0 |
The purpose of this is to give me a flavour of what types of software PM’s are operating in the world today, how they obtained their skills, and what kinds of problems they are having. I have 40 responses so far and would like to get that number up to give a bit of validity to the analysis. I’m publishing here some deeper analysis of this preliminary data to indicate the kinds of questions I’m asking myself and what I seek to tease out from the numbers.
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