No Zombie Project Management
Zombies are the walking dead. They are unresponsive, lifeless, and apathetic. Zombie project managers simply go through the motions. They follow the rules and practices […]
Tag: Managing Projects
Cheating the Triple Constraint
The Triple Constraint (aka, Iron Triangle) is often regarded as a law of physics. A change in one side of the triangle, by definition, affects […]
Projects…Start with What & Why
What are we doing? And why are we doing it? These are the first two critical questions that must be asked at the start of […]
Creating Accountability
At the beginning of my project management classes, I ask participants if they have any big, burning questions. Accountability always tops the list. Project managers […]
Earned Work: Measuring Project Performance
Earned Work Management is a lightweight, approach-agnostic project performance measurement system that supports Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban. This allows organizations employing different project approaches to […]
Intentional Project Management
Meteorologists are better at predicting the weather than project managers are at delivering projects. About a third of projects are delivered on time, on budget, […]
Scaling Your Project Management Career
Project managers ascend the career ladder based on accumulated experience-derived wisdom and managing progressively larger and more complicated efforts. A typical trajectory involves moving from […]
Project Management: 10-Year Retrospective
I authored my first project management article 10 years ago. A mentor recommended I start writing to launch my transition from managing project organizations to […]
Project Data Visualization
A picture is worth a thousand words. Projects can generate a lot of data. Large, mature organizations generally have the tools to capture, store, and […]
Project Decision-Making
Making good decisions is a critical project management skill. The challenge is to create a fair, efficient, effective, and transparent process for our teams and […]