Projects, Leadership, Strategy
Recently in a comment on LinkedIn regarding the Waterfall/Agile/Hybrid debate, Adrian Dooley (Praxis Framework) explained how projects live on a continuum, with Cost of Rework and Uncertainty being the two primary defining factors. I loved his explanation and wanted to add my own thoughts. To help illustrate these, I put...
Several posts recently have criticized the ‘methodology wars’ so many get caught up in, and attempted to shift the discussion to ‘leadership doesn’t care about methods, they just want results’.
The ‘value’ of project management… we see this come up quite a bit. There’s only one value proposition for project management (hint: it’s NOT delivering to a ‘plan’).
Note: Several years ago I did a guest post for a project management software provider. They asked a series of questions and I provided my thoughts. The original psot is no longer available, but as I feel it provides some good ideas I’m reproducing it here. What are the...
Last week I addressed the misunderstanding regarding the difference between Scope Creep and Scope Change. This week we’ll tackle a more fundamental issue – Scope itself. There’re four primary misconceptions I commonly see re: scope – Scope is pre-determined, and fixed. Scope is a set of tasks Scope suggests we...
I’ve never been a fan of the idea of ‘positive’ risk. It’s a niche idea only found inside the risk and project management communities, and goes against every definition, and the general public’s usage, of the word ‘risk’.