Project management and software should be a marriage made in heaven. Sadly, these unions are often abusive at best and quickly end in divorce. We need to understand why if this is going to change.
Navigating Organizational Politics
Politics is an inevitable reality in organizational life. Neither good nor bad, it’s how things get accomplished. We need to understand our approach to politics to understand how we best get things done.
Great Expectations
One of the fundamental activities of effective project management is establishing effective requirements. Essential is a strategy to understand what are often unstated but very real expectations that exist within our organizations.
Managing In A Global World: How Easy Is This Anyway?
Globalization is a dominant them in the media, and the accepted wisdom is that increased globalization is inevitable. What does this mean for the project manager, and for the overall practice of project management?
A Monster’s Guide to Project Horrors
We all fear the presence of monsters under the bed. And as with horror films, we often don’t see what’s about to bite us until it is too late. So what monsters lurk within our projects? A seasonally spook-tacular article.
The Numbers Game
We live in a world that wants to slap the number ‘2.0’ after everything, to simplify a new and more effective way of working. Before we get to Communications 2.0, however, shouldn’t we get 1.0 right?