The Curse of Project Management
Greetings Leaders! I’m posting excerpts from The Curse of Project Management.
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Project Management
Does Project Methology Matter?
Greetings Leaders! In the January 2010 issue of PM Network published by the Project Management Institute (PMI), there was an article written by Jesse Fewell, PMP that stated that project methodology didn’t matter. His basic premise was that sometimes project managers get caught up discussing methodology instead of getting the project done. I understand his
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Should a Project Manager Become PMI Certified?
Greetings Project Managers! I often get asked, “should a project manager (PM) become certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI)?” There are several ways of approaching this, but let me give you some background before getting into specifics.
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Healthcare Reform – A Project Manager’s Perspective
Greetings Leaders! Like most of you, I have been following the attempt to get some kind of health care reform legislation passed. If you look at the statistics it’s hard to argue for the status quo and I think most people would agree that we need to do something. Sounds like the start of a
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Leadership and the Predator Drone Program – What Were They Thinking?
Greetings Leaders! What were they thinking!!! As a former Commander in the US Navy, I am absolutely appalled at what has hit the news regarding the Predator Drone Program. If you haven’t heard, the Predator, one of the relatively new weapons in the US arsenal against terrorism, transmits signals unencrypted. What that means is that
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How To Maintain Your Edge as a Leader
Greetings Leaders! During the project management class I taught last night, I discussed the project management triangle. The basic concept being that if you change any one of the sides, that you must change at least one of the other. For example, if you increase your scope of the project, you must increase the time
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Boeing’s Dreamliner, A Project Management Nightmare Update
Image by jnsabino via Flickr Greetings Leaders! I wrote an earlier blog on Boeing’s Dreamliner and said they were due for more bad news. I hate to say it, but guess what… more bad news. And, there will be more to come. Today the Wall Street Journal announced that Boeing stopped production on the Dreamliner’s
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Project Managers – How to Switch Industries
Greetings Leaders! In today’s tough economy, many project managers are facing the dilemma of changing industries and I often get asked about this when teaching project management classes. Can project managers (PMs) switch industries? My answer… it depends. It depends on your individual situation and your goals and aspirations. Before I give you advice on
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Project Management – Lessons in Estimation From Boeing’s Dreamliner
Greetings Leaders! I’ve been loosely following Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner project and thought I’d throw out a few high level lessons learned. Here are two interesting articles on the project, one written in June 2006 and the other in June 2009. Let me start off with the bottom line – the project is delayed over 2
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Leading With Honor and the Health Care Crisis in America
Greetings Leaders! Paying for health care is a complicated subject and it is not my purpose here to rehash all the statistics or reasons behind our current health care dilemma. If you are looking for some consolidated information, follow this link to the National Coalition on Health Care. What I do want to discuss over
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