I just read a great post that describes some of the challenges that face project managers. The basic premise is that it’s almost impossible to control a project because there are just too many people making too many decisions, but don’t give up hope the article provides a coping strategy. ...
I have just discovered the chief happiness officer blog, which focused on happiness at work and I think it’s great. Just this morning I was talking to Graham on the phone while out walking (I had nothing better to do, Graham was late for a meeting!) and I was saying how...
Collaboration is a key competency for today’s enterprises and yet despite the fact that the Internet is awash with a myriad of different collaboration solutions many teams still struggle to be effective and most projects continue to fail by at least one metric. Many people assume that collaboration comes naturally...
I have long held the belief that successful collaboration is not so much about getting fancy technology and much more about process, culture and careful deployment and use of the technologies you do have. I was therefore pleased to see the results of a survey on collaboration that S. Ann...
Rod Boothby has an interesting article describing some the the real business applications of blogs. He chose managing projects in this example and I am a big supporter of this. I have spent a lot of time observing projects and programmes failing and think that blogs can play a really...
We can sometimes get carried away by the idea that the solution to all of our problems is team work, we draw ever more people onto our conference calls, send our emails to bigger circulation lists and try an enlist a diverse group of people on every project to increase...
I love the reforming project management blog, it has some great insights. As an architect/solution manager who has dabbled with project and programme management for 15 years I have found that all too often project managers get tricked into managing the project and not managing the people. A great example...
I have often noticed that the most impressive people I work with are the ones who ask the best questions, Hal has some hints on how to do this on Reforming Project Management. His key insight is to use the following two questions, in addition to the traditional who, what,...
The idea seems to be to use a single client to manage all of a teams interactions around a specific activity. It seems like a great idea in principle, although I have a few concerns about how it will work in practice: I am worried that the process of publishing...
I recently came across a quite amazing offer from AxoSoft, that allowed me to get a 5 user version of their project management software OnTime for just $5 rather than $495, even better the $5 was donated to the Red Cross! I have been struggling to find a project/task management...