New This Month — July 2019
Guests 1: What is a Project? Part 2 — The Differences between "Projects" and "Day-to-Day Operational Activities", by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez. Antonio explains the differences, provides his simple definition of project management and offers his recommendations as to when to apply it. 07/19
Guests 2: 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
Musings:
The Project Manager's Environment — A LinkedIn Discussion circa December 2013. As the date indicates, I recorded a part of this discussion over five years ago. So, has this environment changed? The answer seems to be — not a lot.
Project management tip of the month — See below for Max's latest comment.
Recent
Guests: What is a Project? Part 1 — Always begin by defining what exactly a project involves. Meaning is the root of achievement, by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez. Antonio says 80+% of jobs are part projects, yet people view projects as an unwelcome interference with their "regular" work.
Guests: A Brief Introduction to Lean, Six Sigma, and Lean Six Sigma by Ankit Rastogi. Ankit introduces you to these three techniques so that people with no experience in this area can get an idea of what it is all about.
Papers: Succeeding with Senior Management - Getting the right support at the right time for your project by G. Michael Campbell, PMP (Book Review). Provides valuable advice on how to get what your project needs from your project's sponsor and other senior staff.
Guests: Did You Give Up on Quality? by Robin Hornby. Discusses today's approach to quality, how it is misundertood, and how it should be treated as an intrinsic attribute.
Special paper: Policies, Principles, Practices, Procedures and Core Concepts, a position paper developed by 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 now!
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.
Musings: Differentiating the Management of Different Types of Projects. Different types of work in different industries require different development processes - that are distinct from managing the project.
Musings: Yet another attempt to Look into the Future [of] Project Management. Not least of the expected changes are an increase in the number of specialties, more project effort carried out independently, and a legal framework for the offering of project management services.
Musings: Sound advice on two issues - What are the characteristics of your ideal project sponsor? And 15 items that characterize what consititutes Good email etiquette, and WHEN YOU DON'T HIT THE SEND BUTTON.
At-A-Glance Issacons
(Issues and Considerations) are sets of slides providing summary information
for specific questions associated with particular PM topics. Designed to save
hours of searching yet more detailed than a plain bulleted list.
PM
Glossary version 5.5 is free on this site. The glossary shows how many project management terms
mean different things to different people. For latest version 6.1 see below.
Papers & Books
are thought-provoking and valuable insights into project management and include
numerous book reviews. You will also find information about books that I have
written or co-authored from time to time.
Max's
Musings are brief thoughts on various project management topics.
Guest
Articles contain articles on particular PM topics contributed to this site by
a wide range of other authors.
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Project
management tip of the month
The start right principle:
If you don't get it right at the beginning, you'll never get it right.
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