Welcome to my project management site
Announcements
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The Wideman Education Foundation ("WEF" 2007) is a registered charity tax-exempt status under the Canadian
Federal Government Income
Tax Act. WEF offers a win-win opportunity for donors and sponsors with a simple value proposition:
• Project competitions that introduce high school students to basic
project management skills and experience
• Identification of enthusiastic students capable of teamwork and team leadership that
benefit both family and community
• Planting the seeds of
a future project-ready workforce for companies in need of talent
"Great oaks from little acorns grow"
Find out more HERE
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NEW!
The Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
Version 5.0 is now available
(See What's New in Version 5.0)
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A Management Framework for Project,
Program and Portfolio Integration? (ISBN
1-4120-2786-1, 260 pp, 2004) expands on my original
well-known book A
FRAMEWORK for Project and Program Management INTEGRATION published by the
Project Management Institute in
1991. Find out more HERE and order
your copy HERE.
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Project management tip of the month
The right answer principle: In project management, it takes thought and study, especially study, to get the right answers.
New information added monthly
July 2009 - In this Part 2 of his Analysis of the PMBOK® Guide Fourth Edition, our Guest, Muhamed Abdomerovic describes his findings in detail and offers suggestions for improvement in the next PMBOK update. This month our Paper reviews another of Tom Kendrick's books, Results without Authority: Controlling a project when the team doesn't report to you. Can you? Tom explains how. In Musings, we discuss The Most Important Senior Project Manager Characteristics based on a comparable study of CEOs. Purveyors of ever-popular project management soft skill courses (i.e. "human resources") may discover that they are on the wrong track.
June 2009 - Our Guest, Muhamed Abdomerovic, presents his Analysis of the PMBOK® Guide Fourth Edition. In this Part 1 he describes his systems approach and the tools he uses. Is it better that the 2004 version? Apparently. Could it be better? Definitely. In our Musings, we examine why we get so easily trapped by Our Way with Numbers in Life Cycles and Percentage Progress. This month we present three brief book reviews: Building a Century - A history of Bechtel from the young man that started out in construction and built up a great company (full text accessible on line on the occasion of its 110th anniversary). This book also provides a very useful project case study; Total Quality Management by John Morfaw on the application of TQM to the salvation of the health care industry in Africa; and Ten Commandments of Project Management by Robin Hornby, rules to keep your project out of trouble.
May 2009 - Have you ever used an S-curve to control your project? Do you even know what it is and how to use it? In fact The Mysterious S-curve is one of the simplest yet most powerful control tools in project management. Our Guest David Garland provides detailed instructions. Is Your Project at Risk from the "Economic Downturn"? We discuss this in our Musings this month and what the downturn means for the project employee. In Papers we complete the First
Principles of Project Management with Part 2: Eight Principles and a Discussion of associated issues.
Helpful information for people in a hurry
It is not for me to tell you how to run your project
— that's
your decision. Nor am I trying to teach you about
project management
— there are plenty of excellent books and courses
to do that.
You see, any fool can make things complicated, my goal is to keep
it simple! Go to the site map
to see all
site content listed by subject area.
The site map lists extensive information on project management.
To find what you are looking for, use the Search
My Site link on
the left of each page to reach the Google search panel.
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Issacons stands for Issues and Considerations and are sets of
slides providing summary information responding to a specific
question associated
with a particular project management topic.
Designed to save hours of searching when all you want is
a simple checklist, they provide the reader with succinct
information. Issacons are
more detailed than a plain bulleted list.
To view slides as text, click the "A" button on
the right side of the slides.
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A free-on-web comparative glossary (version 3.1) designed to show how many common terms mean different
things to different people, thereby leaving you free to create your own distinct version for your particular project.
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Points of view from other contributors.
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Papers and Book Reviews: Thought provoking and valuable insights into project management. Books I
have written.
Hence, more successful projects
and more of them that are successful. |
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My thoughts on various incidental project management topics. |
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