Does social media have anything to do with project management? Well, inasmuch as social media is an avenue for communication and collaboration, I suppose, in the right circumstances, it can be a project management tool. Anyway, I hope social media’s got something to do with project management, because that’s...
First, let me wish happy holidays and happy new year to you, cherished readers. I’m a little late for Hanukah, a little early for Christmas and Kwanza, absurdly late for Ramadan and completely ignorant of any other holidays I could possible mention, but whatever you celebrate and...
I was reading an article* in Phi Beta Kappa’s periodical, The Key Reporter, the other day (I borrowed it from somebody smart), and happened across an article that mentioned “two great dreams that are shaping the future of scholarship.” The dreams are related to the digital information culture and...
It’s the wise project manager who garners tools for dealing with stress. One such tool I have to suggest:Perspective. Last night I went to the memorial service for a friend of mine. A swell guy, gifted musician and teacher, wonderful husband, father and friend, was taken from us in...
A while ago my wife gave me a collection of cartoons called Dilbert Gives You the Business. There are a lot of great strips in there about the Quality craze of the 1980s and 90s. I was there, and clearly remember seconding a fellow member of...
Change is the basic condition of our lives. Buddha said, “Everything changes, nothing remains without change.” Jesus was hip to change, too: “…no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins...
In another post for this blog (feel free to wax nostalgic for a moment), I brought up the idea of two types of change: Closeup Change and Big Picture Change. The former is the type of mundane project change we deal with all the time, while the latter is systemic,...
So, here you are with some idea of minimizing the productivity loss that comes with people change. You’re going to need a solid conceptual foundation for your project plan. (I was going to say “vision” but I’ve been reading a Dilbert collection lately and I just couldn’t...
The target is painted on your head in bright crimson. Success depends on your ability to organize and lead. People from all over the organization come to you for information. You give informative presentations to Important People, who listen with rapt attention. You are… ***Insert Trumpet Fanfare***...
I was at a meeting of the Technology Association of Georgia (awesome organization, by the way) the other night and I met a woman who was about to start her first project management job in a fast-paced organization. She had plenty of business experience, but didn’t have...