http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com The magazine for the project age Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:52:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I still meet many project managers who just state that sharing a project vision (if ever there is one) is a waste of time and that the project team should just concentrate on what they are asked (told ?) to do. This always reminds me of my first project management ... http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/03/12/862/ From the Lean Insider: Speaking to Toyota employees at the Detroit Auto Show President Watanabe asked that they take responsibility for recent quality problems. "I do not regard the problem as something that suppliers are responsible for. We must work together so that we are fully aware of where suppliers ... http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/02/20/861/ Brad Appleton reviewed Lean Project Management, by L Leach concluding, "I found Lean Project Management to be a fairly quick read providing a good overview of some TOC and CCPM fundamentals and how they align with Lean thinking." http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/02/19/860/ 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 ... http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/02/12/859/ Hi. I’m Alan Mossman, a consultant based in the UK. Hal has invited me to contribute occasional posts to RPM in the areas of design, safety and collaboration. One of my profs at Uni, Stafford Beer, asserted "A system is what a system does". So why would anyone ... http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/02/12/858/ In my first guest-blogger entry, I mentioned the importance of managing perceptions. I wrote that not doing so was the main cause of why only one project out of three was considered successful by major stakeholders, according to the Standish Group's Chaos Reportwww.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf. I concluded that "not managing perceptions" could ... http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/02/05/857/ Back in the fall 2007, the AIA Practice Management Digest asked Greg Howell, Executive Director of the Lean Construction Institute, to convene a panel of design and construction lean thinkers to write on lean design (for construction). I was one of the invited essayists. I wrote a paper ... http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/01/13/855/ I'm glad to have Claude posting at RPM. It was Claude who gave name to these wonder filled times -- the project age. Please welcome him with your comments. http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/01/11/853/ "Project Quality Management must address the management of the project and the product of the project" (p.180, PMBOK, 3rd edition) In an earlier blog entry, I presented the Nine Wastes of Mismanaged Projects, according to Lean Project Management gurus (Howell, Macomber, Koskela, Bodek). I said then that I saw a 10th waste ... http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/01/11/854/ Our inclination is to ease into new situations. We take baby steps thinking that it is the safe way to engage in something new. Two of my sons just went sky diving. There's no reasonable way to ease out of the plane...particularly when you are jumping tandem. ... http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/01/10/852/ Don't you just love Industry Week? Whether you work in manufacturing or you do projects for manufacturers you gotta pay attention to IW stories. In the December 2007 issue there was a sidebar on careers. IW quoted from John M. McKee's book, Career Wisdom: 101 Proven Strategies ... http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/01/09/851/ WSJ reported, "Ford and GM reported lower December sales, capping off annual declines of 12% and 6%, respectively. Toyota's 2007 sales (in US) rose 3.1% even amid tough competition and signs that the U.S. consumer is beginning to labor in a slowing economy." http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2008/01/07/850/