Software Projects and Release Dates
Software Projects and Release Dates By Melanie Carasso The thing about software projects is that sooner or later, they’re supposed to be shipped out the door. Preferably sooner. This sounds easy – design some...
Category: Project Management Musings
Overcoming Project Management Super Villains
Overcoming Project Management Super Villains By Kiron D. Bondale Delivering our profession often requires super-human effort and, as we all know, a super hero is only as good as the super villains they have...
Why Your Senior Managers Like Serial Lifecycles
Why Your Senior Managers Like Serial Lifecycles By Johanna Rothman Serial lifecycles have lots of downsides. They don’t manage technical, schedule, or cost risk, they increase the duration of the project, and they don’t...
Leading a Project and Leading a Business – Is There a Difference?
Leading a Project and Leading a Business – Is There a Difference? By Paul Slater Well of course there is, these are completely different animals aren’t they? Businesses are complex mixtures of owners, managers,...
Project Management Leadership: Why Management by Consensus Does Not Work
Project Management Leadership: Why Management by Consensus Does Not Work By Diane Ellis You only have to look at the recent Climate Summit in Copenhagen to realise that management by consensus is not the...
Project Management for Entrepreneurs: Throwing Away the PMBOK
Project Management for Entrepreneurs: Throwing Away the PMBOK By Megan Strand When I was first exposed to the basic principles of formal Project Management, I wanted to run screaming. Well, actually, I should clarify....
On Real Project Management Maturity
On Real Project Management Maturity By Rob Llewellyn It’s all very well for an organisation’s senior management to hold up their hands and proclaim; “We have Project and Programme Managers who manage our delivery”...
Planning Is Not A Project Life-cycle Phase
Planning Is Not A Project Life-cycle Phase By William R. Duncan Planning is not a project life-cycle phase. Planning is an ongoing activity throughout the project. The only time planning looks even a little...
Project Management 101
Project Management 101 (#3 in the series A Cynical Perspective on Project Management) By Barry Otterholt Most of us need to learn by our own mistakes, rather than heed the wisdom of others. Here...
Is Project Management Art or Science?
Is Project Management Art or Science? By Jorge Dominguez Project Managers are certainly both artists and scientists though not in the context in which we know these words. Project Managers apply a science using...
