A colleague caught me off-guard the other day when he said he could calculate time. It took me a minute, but I got it. He…
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A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do. Synonyms include restriction, check, curb, and limitation. Nearly every project is constrained in…
Yes, there really is a management style called Management by Wandering Around (MBWA). MBWA is characterized by managers spending much of their time in face-to-face…
Douglas Hofstadter’s law of programming simply states that, “It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s law.” While Hofstadter…
Before we delve into the world of project management, let’s start with something which may, at first sight, appear to be just a humorous interlude.…
Project managers spend a fair amount of time of time documenting their project communications plans. They usually do some sort of stakeholder analysis to determine…
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse,…
PMI emphasizes the role of the project manager as the key figure in project leadership. It is true that the project manager leads the work…
It seems everyone wants to know the status of my projects. I already provide weekly and monthly reports to the customer, my team, my managers,…
We have all watched the countdowns on TV as NASA or Elon Musk have prepared to shoot rockets and astronauts into space. We have heard…