Try answering this – Why did the project manager cross the road? To make it easy, I give you 3 probable reasons: a) He was asked to cross the road b) He heard they were setting up free project support camps on the other side c) He thought he could get a better view from…
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What do Cat herding, Cheerleading, Mafia and Steroids have to do with Project Management? Read on…
Word of caution. Throw caution to the wind and then read this through. I have attempted to portray what a project management world would look like in the future. I have chosen to do this by explaining new roles / concepts along with existing ones, and by describing possible changes in general mindset. This is…
What we were not told about Project Management!
Few one liners to bring out the humor in otherwise a dry subject 🙂
◾Shortly, Projects (status) will also be traded on the futures exchange, with stop loss on failure and buy on success
◾Quality 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
Crossing the finish line, while it (still) matters!
This post describes the various critical success factors for project execution
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…
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…
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!).
Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and You – Demystified
What does CMM mean to the common man. An attempt at simplifying the same.
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…
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…
Random Musings 