Musings on project management

Are you an independent practitioner? In the US, 1/3rd of the workforce are independents. An amazing proportion to my way of thinking. One...

Fidelity, faithfulness, and commitment often seem to be the tension between: What the customer/sponsor/user want, and What the project c...

Quantmleap had a nice posting on the word count thing, to wit: Pythagorean Theorem – 24 words Archimedes’ Principle 67 words 10 Comman...

We read a lot about "soft power", but not in the PMBOK. It's not a power paradigm of PMI. Soft power is a concept develope...

I wonder if the paradigm for change management should be changed? I'll bet a lot of people have an opinion on this. If so, and having...

In a prior post, we mused about "risk amateurs". However, even experts are often befuddled by expected value. Questions arise: ...

In  the old days (in the last century) -- in the defense and the aerospace domains -- we used to routinely write "data item descriptio...