Managing Projects Across Multiple Time-zones – Part 2
This post is Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1 covered the essential information needed to...
Read Moreby adam | Nov 12, 2020 | Project Management Skills | 0 |
This post is Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1 covered the essential information needed to...
Read Moreby adam | Nov 9, 2020 | Project Management Skills | 0 |
Recently I was asked a question about managing projects across multiple timezones. I think I know...
Read Moreby adam | Oct 19, 2020 | Leadership, Project Management Skills | 0 |
This is an abstract of a Medium yarn I published a couple days ago. if you’re...
Read Moreby adam | Jun 15, 2019 | Project Execution, Project Management Skills, Software Projects | 0 |
As I move around from one project management assignment to another, I repeatedly find myself...
Read Moreby adam | Aug 20, 2017 | Project Execution, Project Management Community, Project Planning, Systems Integration | 0 |
Plans Project plans and planning are inevitably a part of any project initiative. In almost all enterprise environments projects are next to impossible to initiate and to execute without a plan. By “plan” I mean any...
Read Moreby adam | May 14, 2017 | Agile Concepts, Principle-based Project Management | 0 |
Since I put down my thoughts on Principle-based Project Management and the Project Action Principles some time back, I’ve been thinking and researching endlessly about the interplay between linear and non-linear cognition in the practice of Project Management, and how this interacts with our project context.
Read Moreby adam | May 11, 2017 | Leadership, Teaming | 0 |
If you’re a startup, then your organisation is the team. If you’re in a larger enterprise, your team can start small: maybe even just with you! but if you are even modestly successful, you’re going to have to grow the team. In fact, beyond the craziness of early stage startups, mostly you have to grow the team in order to be successful. But as you grow, you run the risk of getting too large. How large is too large?
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 | 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 21, 2015 | Project Management Skills | 0 |
Projects fail because we make them fail. Until we start thinking in these terms, we’re likely to continue to make them fail, because we downplay the well established causes of failure, and ignore the most obvious and well known contributors of success.
Read Moreby adam | Nov 19, 2015 | PAP #1, Project Management Skills | 2 |
time is of the essence when kicking off a project. you lose more time at the beginning than anywhere else. but you can prevent it by being pro-active.
Read Moreby adam | Oct 26, 2015 | Project Management Skills | 0 |
“What is the most important skill that a Project Manager needs to be successful?” This question is asked endlessly in articles, blog posts, discussion groups and polls. The usual answers are skills such as: “Leadership”,...
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