How Many PB&J’s Have You Had?
The other day I had the opportunity to present the opening keynote session at the Lavacon/PMI GNO 2009 Event in […]
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Road Rules, Not Road Rage
I had the opportunity to speak at the PMI Congress this year. My presentation, called Expected Behaviors for Project Team
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Setting a Baseline
October 8 through 12 I attended the PMI Leadership meeting and after that the PMI Congress. I have actively volunteered
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Project Management in 2025
I and the rest of the PMI New Media council had the opportunity to interview the editors of “Project Management Circa 2025;” David I. Cleland, PhD, PMI Fellow, and Bopaya Bidanda, PhD. This is a collaborative effort by 41 authors to predict the state of various parts of the project management discipline and how it will be implemented 15 years in the future.
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Why Should You Care About Social Media?
I had a great time in Orlando recently for the 2009 PMI North America Global Congress. The PMI New Media
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Is the Enemy Us or Fate? (5 of 5)
Dealing with Ambiguous Situations Ambiguous situations are usually characterized by conflicting signals, signals intertwined with background noise, disconnection between actions
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Is the Enemy Us or Fate? (4 of 5)
Reasoning by Analogy To reason by analogy; recognize a past experience is similar to the current situation, evaluate what did
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Is the Enemy Us or Fate? (3 of 5)
Mental Frames A mental framework is the model we use to simplify the complex and ambiguous world around us; it
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Is the Enemy Us or Fate? (2 of 5)
Cognitive Biases A totally rational person (enter Mr. Spock) would collect a lot of information, analyze many alternatives and only
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Is the Enemy Us or Fate? (1 of 5)
One recent morning I was enjoying the company of my peers at the monthly PMI-Silicon Valley Chapter’s PMO Breakfast meeting.
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Risk Management – Paradoxes and PLC
Two of the keynote speakers at the PMI Risk Symposium provided insights into how different risks change in priority over
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