Archive for May, 2008

PMS Relief: Looking to Nature

Friday, May 30th, 2008

When 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:  Beaver Overthinks Dam (via theonion) Enjoy!

PMing Out of Control

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

There 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 considered a godsend or a ...

Are You Really Done?

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Johanna 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 (and I daresay more effective than ...

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