Musings on project management

There comes a point where more planning can not remove the remaining uncertainty, instead execution must be used to provide data and ...

Someone says 'calculus' and you think .... Yikes! Get me out of here! Calculus doesn't belong in the PMO I took it in hig...

Can't get off the dime? Not motivated? Putting things off? Perhaps Parmenides's clever disciple, Zeno of Elena, has the perfec...

I had thought that the magic of the information age was that it allowed us to know more, but then I realized the magic of the information...

The code of tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In the [project of...

Stage gates and Agile? To some, that might sound horrifying! Not exactly! One of my Agile Project Management students asked me about sta...

A good system is one in which the risks are visible Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb, most famous for authoring "...