This time of year, many of us are thinking about decorating for the holidays. You might decorate your house with wreaths, your children...
Simplistic versus simplified thinking
The late Steve Jobs said that if you believed something was ‘simple’ you obviously did not understand it. The challenge, he said, was to...
Planning a project meeting
A well planned meeting requires a commitment to excellent outcomes based on good preparation and strong design skills. I’m using meeting...
Do sponsors need to be qualified in project management?
Stakeholder management isn't new, but I sense a greater foregrounding of collaboration as a success factor in projects. Every project...
Managing risk and contingency
I was recently interviewing a risk management specialist and was intrigued to find that although he had a huge amount of knowledge about...
Happy International Project Management Day!
Without project management, would there be chaos? You might go a little crazy if you lose your work breakdown structure, but that's...
The time before business-as-usual
What is a project other than the period before business-as-usual? This definition has never been more true than in the area of disaster...
Protecting the project
There is a famous case in Australia where the chairman of a large company rejected out-of-hand a takeover offer of $27 per share when...
To you and your project’s health
Wellness has been on the backburner for many project professionals striving to make careers for themselves. These people may have been...
Projects, projects everywhere
I've been conducting a bit of soft research—what many of you in project management might call a feasibility study—on whether there might...








