Category: Project Management Musings

Avoiding Project Management Landmines By Jim Clarke You live, you learn. Implement projects, and you certainly do. I am not a career project manager, just like most people who assume the role. Therefore, what...

Watery Lessons in Project Management By Thomas Cutting Me and my daughters were having contests to see who could make it across the pool underwater without surfacing. That hit pretty close to some of...

Why It Is Important that Software Projects Fail By Anthony Berglas This paper boldly challenges the long established misconception that the catastrophic failure of expensive software projects is detrimental to society. Historical analysis of...

Partial Commitments to Projects Create Unpredictable Projects By Johanna Rothman There’s a discussion on a mailing list about a partially committed-to project: there aren’t enough people on the project, the people don’t have the...

When Is Your Project Ready to Go Live? By Harley Lovegrove You don’t need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind blows, but give the same source data to a number of...

10 Ways to Sink a Project By André Augusto Choma Many projects face problems for multiple reasons: problems of scope, insufficient planning and bad risk assessment are frequent nightmares in any project manager’s life....

The Art of Productive Laziness for Project Managers – Part II (#2 in the series The Lazy Project Manager) By Peter Taylor Science behind the laziness – being focused The Pareto principle (also known...

The Project Manager’s Tool Kit By W. Scott Cameron, Procter and Gamble Project managers are rarely described as being funny. Moreover, a good sense of humor rarely seems to be one of the deciding...