Creating Passion in Projects
This week I’m working with an R&D team in a company that makes bathroom fixtures. As I walked into their
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Welcome to the blog, where practitioners share project management insights with the community. The blogs are written by volunteers of the SVPM Scrum Team Program and external contributors.
Lessons NOT Learned!
Have you ever noticed that the topics raised at project post mortems tend to be pretty much the same every
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Computational Modeling of Project Organizations Under Stress
Can we design organizations the way we design products? Can we change their designs to make them more efficient/effective? These
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Embracing Failure
I believe we need to rethink our views about failure. Truly, the only failure is if we fail to learn
The Bad PM Olympics
Recently I realized that I have become a little cynical about project management. Maybe I’m just negative, and most projects
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Give Them An Example
At first I was disappointed in the quality of action plans prepared at the end of professional development short courses
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Foreigner? No Such Thing!
Imagine an astronaut lands on Neptune and finds living creatures. What would they be called, aliens? There are no more
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New Years Rez: Deal with Bottlenecks BEFORE they Choke Your Project
(Posted on behalf of Michele Jackman, PM Consultant extraordinaire) I recently gave a UCSC presentation on the “art and science”
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Let’s Not Talk About the Vampire in the Living Room
Some parts of a project are just: slam dunk. They’re straightforward, sweet, smooth and easy. Everybody knows what to do,
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Fruits ‘n’ Nuts in a Basket
It’s that time of year: the break room tables are piled with boxes of candy and littered with crumbs. Workplace
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Program Management – Just complex Project Management?
After leading a number of projects, you are asked to lead a major effort with multiple teams working somewhat independently
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