Category: Project Management

Complexity ‘Can’ Be Planned For

  Just because ‘you’ learned about it today doesn’t mean it’s never been done before. In a recent post on LinkedIn re: the James Webb Space Telescope I made the comment that it had been completed through “meticulously planning how the emergent practices would be applied.” This was in part...

First Principles of Project Management

It seems ‘first principles’ is one of the newest corporate ‘buzzphrases’, popularized in large part by Elon Musk when he explained his approach with SpaceX and making privatized space travel affordable. And so because Elon said it, and we all want to sound like our ideas and approaches are ‘grounded...

We’re Not Ready for a Seat at the Table (Yet)

  There’s a popular narrative going around that Project Professionals should seek to ‘be more strategic’. That they should lobby for a ‘seat at the table’. While an understandable sentiment (everyone wants to be ‘heard’, and to be seen as important), I think that *at this time*, this is not...

The Evolution of Project Management

The more I watch conversations around project management unfold, and the more my conversations bring me into contact with practitioners with deeper experiences than me, the more convinced I am that PMI, in conjunction with IPMA, APM, etc., needs to launch (and fund) an initiative to capture, document, and explain...