Musings on project management

John P. Kotter is a change guy. I've been going through his 1996 classic "Leading Change" Here's my take: it's a go...

I don't often address industry-specific risks here at Musings, but an article about risks in the pharmaceutical industry caught my eye. ...

Alexander Hamilton, one of America's founders, could have been one of the original thought leaders behind the governance of project mana...

Has everyone got a handle on EBITDA? If not, in a few words, EBITDA is a measure of cash earnings from the real business, the day to day ...

Jurgen Appelo sometimes gets it wrong. In a recent blog post about teams , he asserts we're "making the same mistake all over"...

I recently gave a presentation to a PMI chapter on Agile project management using a sailing race analogy. I've used this analogy before,...

Eisenhower once said: planning is everything; plans are nothing. He had in mind Von Moltke's famous statement: plans never survive first...