New This Month — October 2019
Guests: The Mysterious S-curve, 4th Edition Part 4 by David Garland. Here David explains, why you should use S-curves, S-curve analysis, and how to generate the required curves. He concludes with explaining the value and benefits of tracking S-curves for reporting project progress through to destination.
Musings:
An awful lot of time is wasted in meetings, right? Author David DiSilvo provides ten reasons why many meetings are so boring and ineffective and offers ways for Making Meetings More Effective.
Project management tip of the month — See below for Max's latest comment.
Recent
Musings: Following up on the reality of Matrix organizations discussed last month, Dan Pedersen high-lights three significant problem areas in typical Program Management setups, and what can be done about it. 9/19
Musings: Dan Pedersen asks how did the reality of Matrix organizations get missed in the development of the original PMBOK? Max tries to answer. 8/19
Guests: The Mysterious S-curve, 4th Edition Part 3 by David Garland. David describes a worked example of the generation of an S-curve from a simple five-task project. This is followed by how to generate Percentage S-Scurves, but then cautions against using Task Duration as a quantity to generate S-curves. 09/19
Guests: The Mysterious S-curve, 4th Edition Part 2 by David Garland. This month David explains how various types of S-curves can be generated. 08/19
Guests: The Mysterious S-curve, 4th Edition Part 1 by David Garland. The S-curve is a powerful project management tracking tool that should be used more often. David explains what it is, why it is important, different types, and how to use them. 07/19
Special paper: Policies, Principles, Practices, Procedures and Core Concepts, a position paper developed for the International Standards Organization to identify a set of universal Core Concepts for the Governance of all project work. ISO's world-wide task force is charged with updating ISO 21500 (2012) Project Management Guide.
Go to Papers index (04/19) and Download your PDF copy from there !
Classic: The original and only Project Management Body of Knowledge (dubbed "PMBOK") published by the Project Management Institute in 1987, is now available as a PDF document. Want a copy? See PMBOK-1987 Reborn under Other Areas and Interests below. Contains valuable advice even today.
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Project
management tip of the month
The Estimating Duration principle:
If you wait until the last minute to do something, it will take
only a few minutes to do. (A corollary of Parkinson's Law).
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