Interest of Conflict
July 6, 2008
…a bit of a play on words… “Conflict of Interest” is an expression used to describe an ethical problem, like hiring your brother-in-law as a consultant for your employer and sharing the fee. And yes, PMs need to be aware of Conflicts... Read more...
Show us your blogs!
June 20, 2008
After only a couple of months of being active, the PM Blogger group on Linked In has swelled to a membership of 300. Yep, that’s three hundred of you who claim to be blogging about Project Management.I’m thankful and impressed at the volume of interest.... Read more...
Are they M&Ms, or little circular windows into our inner being?
June 12, 2008
In a very intersting posting, Kimberly Wiefling discusses how you can use M&Ms as a team exercise to determine which of nine "strategies" people use to get things done. And what are project managers all about? Junk food! No, wait. I meant to say,... Read more...
Muggling your way through PM
June 8, 2008
I was lucky enough to attend the commencement ceremonies at Harvard University a few days ago. The speaker for commencement was none other than J. K. Rowling, celebrated author of the Harry Potter books. I suggest that you spend a moment and read (or... Read more...
Project Management found on Mars!
June 2, 2008
As you probably know, NASA's Phoenix lander has started to send images back from the red planet. I have been carefully examining the extremely high-resolution versions of the imaging results and have come up with an astounding discovery. I see what appears... Read more...
New Kids on the Blog
May 29, 2008
This posting will have some answers...but mostly it's about one question I have for YOU. Yes, I mean YOU. So I am going to want your responses here - in the form of comments.I chose the cartoon character Richie Rich to represent the PM as the "New Kid... Read more...
Big Dig Ducts Dumbly Dodge Dough
May 28, 2008
The headline in the Boston Globe was not as catchy as this blog posting - the Globe's headline reads: "Big Dig's $13.9m ducts go unused - cellphone firms bypass conduits".For those of you unfamiliar with the Big Dig, it is a $15B system of roadways and... Read more...
One Hundred Fiddlers
May 17, 2008
100 Fiddlers!The original rationale for publishing this blog - or at least one of the main motivations for doing so, was to get traction on an idea a colleague and I had to collaboratively write a PM book called, "The Fiddler on the Project". Part of... Read more...
Bloggers Unite for Human Rights Day - May 15
May 14, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008 is "Bloggers Unite for Human Rights" day. I decided to participate by asking Project managers to try to remove a consraint. We all deal with them every day - but this one is about life and death for thousands of people. In Burma/Myanmar,... Read more...
The Big Yellow Taxi of Project Management
May 11, 2008
"You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone...". These words, from a Joni Mitchell song of 1970, and re-popularized by the Counting Crows more recently, should strike a resonant note with PMs. Why?Well, when you as a project manager are assessing your... Read more...