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PM practice

Our brain is telling us something different about leadership.

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I get a lot of requests to review new books. I’m sitting on 5 books at this time. I try to read them in the order I receive them. I make exceptions for friends. I’m writing [...]

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Matthew May has another hit book. In Pursuit of Elegance, Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing challenges conventional wisdom of good design.

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Take a stand for our profession. Commit to conduct projects in a way that everyone learns what they need to learn.

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It’s time to take our project management careers seriously. Commit to life-long learning.

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Project managers make choices for their clients every day. How do they know they are choosing what is better?

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Projects Are about What?

by Hal on March 24, 2009

in PM practice, PMI, agile, books, teams

The Project Shrink combats conventional wisdom in his new book.

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An engaged workforce musters the courage to ask the dumb questions. It takes steady leadership to make that happen.

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Readers of Reforming Project Management select the top 42 dumb project management questions

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Help generate a list of great dumb project management questions

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Effective project controls requires asking the ‘dumb’ questions.

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Myth of Multitasking

by Hal on November 2, 2008

in PM practice, books

Switchtasking…a new distinction of multitasking from Dave Crenshaw

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Tags: PMpractice, leadership, teams, theory

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Tags: PMpractice, leadership, lean, learning

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Tags: PMpractice, PMBoK, lean, teams, Bodek, leanproject, projectmanagers

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For the busiest of project managers take note on what might get you fired.

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The Two Great Wastes are alive and killing our projects. Not listening and not speaking may be responsible for 85% of project failures according to one research study. Read what you can do about it before it kills your career.

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If rules are meant to be broken, then take a close look at these project rules. They just might be unbreakable.

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What Does Sheepwalking Lead to?

by Hal on February 11, 2007

in PM practice, coaching

How can well-intended people sometimes do things that cause harm on projects? Could sheepwalking lead to malicious compliance?

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What’s more important, measuring or understanding? Drucker or Oglesby?

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Long term success of any firm depends on how well we do projects. Professional service firms — get some good advice.

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What will jazz do for you for your projects?

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Jazz as style might just put swing into your project that makes it a success. Learn how from Wynton Marsalis.

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The Gantt chart is the universal way for showing project status. How is it used to brief project teams?

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Make two resolutions to bring the spirit of lean to your projects and your company.

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