Category: Project Management Musings

Project Management Philosophy – Method Or Madness? By John R Wade Project Management. It’s an art; it’s a science; it’s a pain – and it’s bound to go wrong! Two views can get in...

Inspiration from a Winning Coach By Susan Peterson In recent years the annual phenomenon known as “March Madness”, aka the NCAA basketball championships, has often concluded in April. As I watch these games, I...

Stuck Inside the Project Comfort Zone By John Gough A project is a temporary organization, established to fulfill a specific remit. Projects are usually formed inside bigger organizations, where they nestle like small Russian...

Project Collapses By Kerry Wills This year in Connecticut we are breaking records for snowfall amounts. We have received over 80 inches of snow in just over one month. In the last few weeks,...

Sometimes the Process Is Just as Important as the Product By Ben Snyder, CEO of Systemation Results matter and should be the aim of every employee. Achieving results is what differentiates good employees from...

My Miserable Life as a Project Manager By Barry Otterholt Yes, I’m a project manager. I don’t know how it happened. It’s like I woke up one morning and discovered I had far more...

The Insanity of It All! By Barry Otterholt You’re a project manager, right? You rationalize what you do as normal, right? No offense to the mentally challenged (I hold that we are all mentally...

The Successful Project – Is It Just a Myth? By Paul Naybour Many of us will have embarked on a project with a very clear idea of what we want to achieve at the...

Project Managers: Turn Your New Year’s Resolutions into a Project By Richard Morreale If you’re like me, you have had a few challenges with achieving your New Year’s resolutions. Willpower, lack of focus, not...

You Need a Translator on Your Project Team By Ben Snyder, CEO of Systemation All projects have one thing in common, a communication gap between the visionary and the creator. Visionaries come in many...