We Don’t Need No Project Managers!
We Don’t Need No Project Managers! By Alora C. Chistiakoff As I look at job postings on Dice and Monster, I have been noticing a disturbing, yet unsurprising, trend emerge: an increase in the...
Category: Project Management Musings
Cost of Project Success
Cost of Project Success By Thomas Cutting Great things can be accomplished if Scope, Budget and Duration are no object. Here are some historical examples: Hoover Dam Scope: Stop a river and produce 2080...
Quality in Project Management: When “Doing A Good Job” Collides With “Just Get It Done”
Quality in Project Management: When “Doing A Good Job” Collides With “Just Get It Done” By Susan Peterson One of the most obscure “measures” of quality is the specification of “good enough”. Despite efforts...
Decoding the DNA of Failed Technology Projects – Conclusion
Decoding the DNA of Failed Technology Projects – Conclusion (#10 in the series Decoding the DNA of Failed Technology Projects) By Robert Goatham Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond once wrote, “Although we tend to...
ITIL-igence For Project Managers
ITIL-igence For Project Managers By Tom L. Barnett Pssst! Do you manage your projects with ITIL? Here’s some insight on how project management and ITIL can best work together in an IT organization and...
Differentiating Between Project Success and Project Management Success
Differentiating Between Project Success and Project Management Success By Satya Narayan Dash How will you know whether the project is a success or a failure? Will you consider a project to be a success...
The Baking (Agile) Manifesto – Results Your Customers Will Love
The Baking (Agile) Manifesto – Results Your Customers Will Love (#4 in the series The Baking (Agile) Manifesto) By Melanie Carasso Finally we’re up to the last, and most important, value in the Baking...
Power: The Functional Manager’s Meat and Project Manager’s Poison?
Power: The Functional Manager’s Meat and Project Manager’s Poison? By Daniel Seet Introduction Practical realism is said to be the driving force behind Henri Fayol’s 14 principles of management, which he outlined in 1949,...
Just for Today – Yearnings of a Project Manager
Just for Today – Yearnings of a Project Manager By Susan Peterson Just for today. . . I will have the courage and the intestinal fortitude: To not accept that a project has to...
Bottom Fed Failures – Ailment #4 Leading to Project Failure
Bottom Fed Failures – Ailment #4 Leading to Project Failure (#6 in the series Decoding the DNA of Failed Technology Projects) By Robert Goatham The $5.6 billion dollar fiasco at Her Majesty’s Revenue Collection...
