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Share I was floored this morning when I came across this post about project sponsors. Some choice excerpts: The problem with project sponsors is that they have got to where they are by climbing a very dirty greasy pole. They now have a privileged aerial view of the executive landscape…. The slightest hint or whiff [...] Share I found the following subject line on a mail in my inbox yesterday: PMBOK Breaks Project Management The PMBOK is the grandiosely titled Project Management Book of Knowledge from the Project Management Institute (of which I’m a member). Wow, I thought, someone else thinks formulaic, by-the-book-only project management can be as much a problem as a [...] Share Over on the Lexblog, I’ve posted four brief fireside-chat videos (with a fifth coming tomorrow) describing briefly some key topics in Legal Project Management. Almost all of it applies equally well to non-Legal project management (which isn’t the same thing as illegal project management). The topics are: The Stages of a Project simplifies an approach to project [...] Share Johanna Rothman has an interesting post on why senior managers seem to like waterfall project management, or, as she puts it, serial lifecycles. I do take issue with one blanket statement, however: “The projects your senior managers worked on were much simpler than the products you’re working on now.” This statement assumes either that the IT [...] Share I’m not a huge fan of dashboards, particularly red-yellow-green types of dashboards. Too often, the oversimplify, providing a simplistic, un-nuanced and therefore low-value view of a situation. In particular, I believe they’re a very poor tool for reporting up or out on a project or project portfolio, for reasons I’ve detailed in other posts. However, if used [...] Share A former colleague of mine wrote me the other day: I knew you had more than a passing interest in outsourcing. Maybe you can come up with a solution for the problem outsourcing companies in India are facing. You may know that majority of the income for outsourcing companies comes from engineering of end [...] Share A few weeks ago, I had to chain-saw my way into my driveway. In an odd way, it made me think about project-management tools. (This post on project management is modified from my “day-job” site, Lexician.com/lexblog.) I own a house with a 300-foot-long driveway snaking through thick Pacific Northwest woods. Trees up here have very shallow roots. [...] |
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