The Nimble PM

How many of you have given this advice to a new PM?  I know I have.  I remember vividly explaining to a fellow consultant the mistakes she made in failing to determine exactly what the client wanted when she started the project and then offering a few techniques that I felt would help her in [...]

woke up this morning thinking about the fact that when I talk to CIOs many (if not most) tell me they know they don’t have the best project managers currently on staff.  My own experience would absolutely confirm this as true so the question is why don’t we fix it? Part of the answer seems [...]

I was writing a review at Amazon a while ago and I noticed that a book review I had written a couple of months ago had been listed as unhelpful.  The book is good, I said it was good and yet someone didn’t like what I said.  Ok, I can live with that. Since I have strong [...]

“IT pros always and without fail, quietly self-organize around those who make the work easier, while shunning those who make the work harder, independent of the organizational chart.” Found this quote in a computerworld article a friend sent me (http://tinyurl.com/lm9yb7).  While the entire article is well worth reading this one sentence seemed to pertain to [...]

In my last post I discussed two perspectives that will lead to better project results. In this posting I’ll be discussing the third perspective. 3) Projects results will improve as long as the project team is equipped to handle anything that might block their progress toward completion. Not sure I’ve got the statement above worded exactly [...]

“Project results will improve  because there is an agreed methodology to be followed that helps repeat earlier successes from similar projects”   This is one of the most common misconceptions in the PM space.  One of the reasons it’s so seductive to believe in it is that it sounds like it should be true.  After [...]