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Please Welcome Alan Mossman

Hal — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:31:13 +0000

We have another new blogger at RPM, Alan Mossman, Director of Lean Construction Institute UK. He trained as an architect and then worked as a socio-technical systems consultant. Returning to construction in 2000 he is co-editor of the Lean Construction Journal and from 2005-07 was Director of Constructing Excellence South West. Alan will be contributing articles every few weeks, or so. Please welcome him with your comments and questions.

When you're done reading the following post, head over to ChangeThis to vote on his manifesto proposal Together at the Workface: Improving Construction Logistics.

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Hal’s Baaack!

Hal — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:22:59 +0000

Sorry for not posting on lean project delivery, but September was a very busy month. In short, I anticipated it would take 3 months to sell my house. Instead, lucky me, it took 3 days. And the buyer wanted to get in close to opening day of school. We had no where to go. Our plan is to build a new home. After moving out, moving in to a temporary location, and then moving into a furnished condo we are finally settled. No complaints…I'm living in a town with a population of 305 completely surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest. It couldn't be better.

I'm back to blogging. I've found a way to read a little and to innovate a little in between packing, hauling and unpacking. I'll post tomorrow on careers, Bill Gates and monks. Don't worry, I'm still writing about projects, lean, kaizen, and construction. Maybe my hiatus will be good for writing…

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Take a Break

Hal — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:51:32 +0000

I've been working hard posting everyday. While it's not my new year's resulotion, it is a small change that I want to make. The following is a list of anagrams for the same word or phrase. What is it?

Have some fun making your own anagrams at the Internet anagram Server.

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From Whirlwind to Overwhelm

Hal — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:30:40 +0000

Yesterday's Lean Construction Congress generated 12 postings. Today was different. I got caught up in conversations and only have rough notes. I'll clean those up and post over the next day or so.

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Projects @ Work Reports on Project Manager Bloggers

Hal — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:19:42 +0000

There are a bunch of good blogs on project management. Read about them in Karen Klein's story Project Management Goes Blogging. Better yet, pay them a visit.

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New Lens Available on Language-Action Perspective

Hal — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:06:41 +0000

I received a thoughtful email from a reader over the weekend. (Thanks Doug!) It reminded me of a set of introductory resources I have on this site. From the navigation bar you can access guides (lenses) on Project Leadership, kaizen for Projects, and IGLC Papers Reviewed on RPM. Each lens was designed as a starting point on the topic written from the RPM perspective. You'll find references to articles, postings from RPM, some of the best books on the topic, and a few surprises.

The lenses are not designed to be complete. I've changed each a number of times since they were first posted. Today I've posted a new lens for the Language-Action Perspective on Projects. This one will take quite a bit of updating. Keep checking back.

Let me know if there is a lens you want me to create.

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Feedblitz Replaces Bloglet for Email Delivery

Hal — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:09:08 +0000

I took a radical step today to shutdown delivery of Reforming Project Management via Bloglet. The Bloglet service has been quite unreliable. In its place I'm using FEEDblitz. I've been testing it for about a month. I'm very satisfied with the results. I hope you are too. You'll notice two big changes.

First, you'll start receiving the whole posting. I've had many complaints from my email subscribers about the shortened Bloglet messages. The other change is cosmetic. For now, you'll see the FEEDblitz orange in the emails. That may change when I investigate their additional services.

Some of you may need to update your spam blocking so these messages get through.

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We’ve Just Begun Exploring Project Kaizen

Hal — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:41:28 +0000

Article Series - Project kaizen Co-Blogging

The first week of December 2005 was a great collaboration of practitioners and lean thinking advisors. We've certainly added to the recorded wisdom of project kaizen. And we have a long way to go. For my part, I'll continue to write about the best practices, project experiences, and lessons, especially those learning moments.

Identify an annoyance in your own work and eliminate it. And then do it again!

Lean thinking is transforming one industry after another. That is a really good thing. It's time to bring lean thinking to the project space. In my opinion there's no better place to start than by introducing project kaizen. So, I'm doing my part by launching the project kaizen website. You'll find it at www.projectkaizen.com. (...)
Read the rest of We’ve Just Begun Exploring Project Kaizen (120 words)

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Grim Reader: Project Kaizen Co-Blogger for Wednesday

Hal — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:16:19 +0000

Article Series - Project kaizen Co-Blogging

Read kaizen, learning, and coordination and you'll know why we selected this article as our Gang-of-Seven "plus one" co-blogger of the day. I can't tell whether Eric was writing on Workgroup kaizen or Workstream kaizen. Maybe he's writing about Quick 'n Easy kaizen. In any case, Eric's posting will help you understand the nature and the point of kaizen. Eric writes, (...)
Read the rest of Grim Reader: Project Kaizen Co-Blogger for Wednesday (139 words)

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Project Kaizen Day Two

Hal — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:14:56 +0000

Kathleen Fasanella is on top again. I don't know where to start commenting on her Great Workgroup kaizen posting. Kathleen writes from experience at gemba. While you might not be interested in cutting and stitching patterns, you will learn from her complete examples.

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Do a Blog Search to Find Additional Project Kaizen Postings

Hal — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:04:19 +0000

Looking for an easy way to find all those blogging on project kaizen? I'm using Google Blogsearch, a new service in beta testing, to collect all the postings for me. Place the term "project kaizen" in the search box. Up will come the latest listings. It's easy to read through them, or you can scroll to the bottom where you'll find an RSS feed for the search. Copy that feed into your feed reader and you won't miss any posting that includes project kaizen prominently in the title or body of the posting. You can choose either a 10-post feed or a 100-post feed.

I used this approach yesterday to find Kathleen's post along with two fine posts on the GrimReader and SwimBlog.

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Eye Candy

Hal — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:11:26 +0000

To celebrate the Library of Congress granting me an ISSN for RPM, I've launched my most ambitious of tasks. I'll be posting a new cover image for each issue with help from Kim Black. Hope you enjoy them. Where did I get that skiff-on-an-empty-beach photo that has served as the background image for RFP? It's served its purpose as a placeholder. Long live Reforming Project Management, The Magazine for the Project Age.

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