What we were not told about Project Management!

Few one liners to bring out the humor in otherwise a dry subject 🙂
â—ľShortly, Projects (status) will also be traded on the futures exchange, with stop loss on failure and buy on success
â—ľQuality and the hourglass have a lot in common- there is only so much that can pass and for anything that has to cross over, it has to exactly fit the specifications / exit criteria

Not another 1+2=4, 2+3=6, 3+4= What ?? Post! Get real guys..

Let us go ahead, try and analyze the rationale behind such posts.

2 questions really haunt me:-

Q#1: What sadistic pleasure could “they” (read they – as a large and growing, relatively unknown cult of people, silently on a campaign to promote neo-bonehead-ism and reverse the effects of evolution) derive by doing so?

Q#2: What sadistic pleasure could you derive, by responding with an answer, which a 1000 others have already added and you go on to add yours to the list (and in all probability will be the same answer)?

PM Glossary #5 – What’s (in) a Change Request?

Ponder this through: Project Management and Change Control – are they blood relatives or bloody relatives! A Project can also be termed a vehicle for Change (implementing), so why this much ado around Change Management and Change Control, when you are anyways doing it? Yeah – this is not as simple as it sounds, and…

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PM Glossary #4 – What is Critical Path and how Critique-al can we get?

I was also toying with the “Why is Critical Path, so critical” title for my post and gave up for the former, as this is predominantly a What-is and not a Why-is post. 🙂 This is probably the most infamous of all terminologies in Project Management. Just because all the activities on this path add…

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PM Glossary #3 – Scope, Creep and You

There are universal standards of measurement for Time (your watch and calendar) and Cost (wallet and/ or bank account), leaving out any chance for ambiguity or lack of consensus among stakeholders, but for Scope – this will always remain a grey area (however good the documentation, process, team and relations be!).

PM Glossary – What is Project Management

1. What is Project Management In layman’s terms – somebody wants to move from Point A to Point B (read “move” as being able to do something, hence the birth of a “Project”, also read “somebody” as a Stakeholder). The whole act of thinking through (planning) and ensuring (execution and monitoring) that the journey from…

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A brief history of Project Management – Part 2

Part 2 of this series… Continued from Part 1….(Part 1 can be found at http://colossalthoughts.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/a-brief-history-of-project-management-part-1/) b) From 15th century up to mid 20th century (Project Managers were possibly called as “Projectors” during the early stages – not evidenced though) Radical changes in Project management approach and execution fueled by the industrial revolution and advances in management…

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