Category: Project Management Musings

Am I Being Managed by the Project or Do I Manage the Project? By Peter Rappange or ……. the love for rules In the past I used to work on a regular basis with...

When NOT to Plan By Demian Entrekin The assumptions around planning for technical projects keeps changing, especially when it comes to software projects. More and more the approach seems to be that we should...

Top 10 Personality Traits of a Project Manager By Project Manage This It really doesn’t matter how many years you’ve been managing projects or accounts, how much experience you’ve had with MS Project, or...

Why Project Managers Fail By Jim Benson I’ve managed a lot of projects. I tried to count them – I can’t. As I’ve progressed in my career, I’ve embraced a succession of methodologies that...

Project Failure or Project Success? By Ty Kiisel The Russian writer and physician Anton Pavlovich Chekhov once said, “One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a...

Stop the Madness and Frankenstein Projects By Terry Bunio During a discussion with a colleague I came up with a perfect metaphor for Waterfall or Traditional projects: A Frankenstein project. Please indulge me: The...

Winning Is the Result, Not Project Management By Michael Pruitt The Keller Rohrback Masters Cycling team was designed to win Criteriums, and we did that in spades this year. We won Volunteer Park, Wenatchee...

Nothing Is Simple By Kerry Wills I have come to realize working in Information Technology that nothing is simple. Nothing. Every change has problems Every project is complicated Every request is difficult Every interaction...