Archive for May, 2008
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PMS Relief: Looking to Nature
Posted on May 30, 2008 | No CommentsWhen one isn’t sure how to accomplish a project, one has only to look to nature for guidance of project elegance. Ants building a colony. Bees and their hive. Beavers and their dam..? Here’s an example of what goes wrong when animals act like us: ... -
PMing Out of Control
Posted on May 28, 2008 | No CommentsThere are many, many volumes of facts, opinions, and worst of all, opinions presented as facts and facts presented as opinions out there regarding project management and how it should best be done. The PMI’s PMBOK (project management book of knowledge), for example, can be... -
Are You Really Done?
Posted on May 26, 2008 | No CommentsJohanna Rothman over at Managing Product Development wrote a short series of great posts on what it means to be done in a project. The first article, Why You Don’t Need a Schedule, not only brings up a great alternative to effectively managing a project...