Category: Team building

  • Heroes of project management 🦸‍♂️💪🥇

    Heroes of project management 🦸‍♂️💪🥇

    This article hopes to establish project managers throughout history as being vital to the success of the greatest human endeavours, project management best practice is project management best practice after all, whether building pyramids in the desert, or rebuilding a war-ravaged continent and preventing mass starvation.

  • V is for Volunteering

    V is for Volunteering

    One of the criticisms of modern professional discourse is that there are too many opinions — including this one. Lists abound: “10 things to do.” “10 things not to do.” “10 things you thought were true but aren’t.” It’s endless advice in search of a verb. The only advice that really matters, though, is simple:…

  • Factfulness Part Two – Rules of Thumb

    Factfulness Part Two – Rules of Thumb

    Our first article explored Rosling’s Dramatic Instincts—the biases that lead CIOs and Project Managers to overreact to crises, vendor hype, and boardroom pressure. This article explores the very humans tendency to take a ‘good enough’ approach to problem solving. “Heuristics” is the official name, but it is also known as the ‘Rules of Thumb’. Are…

  • Fast Breaks and Gantt Charts

    Fast Breaks and Gantt Charts

    After 30+ years of portfolio, program and project management, it felt good to encounter a new discipline that brought fresh perspectives and give me new insights on how to lead great and successful winning teams.

  • A parable for failed project management, and how to find success …

    A parable for failed project management, and how to find success …

    Working with a team, managing a successful one, and leading for success allhave at their core a similar problem. How do we ensure that all team membersview the project — the drawbacks and the benefits — with the same insights andunderstanding? This is the Blind Men and their elephant problem. In the classic Indian tale,…

  • What program managers can learn from NASA

    What program managers can learn from NASA

    When people think of NASA, they tend to think of the moon landings and the enormous benefits mankind has received from the side effects of the space But there is another great benefit of NASA that you might not be aware of: better program and project management.