Musings on project management

...  the mantle of leadership [is assumed] with the enormous confidence that comes from the conviction that the ends of action are never ...

Planning is an unnatural process, it’s much more fun to get on with it. The real benefit of not planning is that failure comes as a compl...

In your domain, who can say "Yes" -- and make it stick? Should this be a hard question to answer? It can be. Consider: ...

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James Madison, one of the intellectuals of the American revolutionary period, writing in Federalist* 44 in the pre-constitutional period o...

Are you an O-Ring? Or in an O-Ring job? Many professionals are. What's an O-Ring job? You are an indespensible link in a chain, o...

Is customer satisfaction one of your project metrics. Good grief, I hope so! If not, you might want to consider this little ditty:    ...