Musings on project management

Jurgen Appelo is sometimes spot on! In a recent posting (or fit of angst), he declares he won't take your call. I won't either. (...

Ponder this for a moment: Adding detail to the description of an uncertainty makes it less probable (than a more abstract version), thoug...

Ever notice that long pipelines are not built in a straight line? The bends and corners actually are there for a purpose: risk reduction....

Pipelines and project management. Do these things go together? What are we talking about here? We're talking about flow... Flow is s...

Most of us have heard about/read about the Law of Large Numbers , LLN. In a few words: given an unknown population of things, each thing ind...

Retreat hell! We're just advancing in a different direction Major General Oliver Smith, US Marines Battle of the Chosin Reserv...

Change is hard because people don’t only think on the surface level. Deep down people have mental maps of reality — embedded sets of a...