Musings on project management

Recently heard: this lament from IT innovation workers: [We] encounter ironclad corporate hierarchies and resistance to change, a paradox in...

One of the big differences between a team and a group is cohesiveness around the goal: There's no success individually unless there i...

Are you accountable? Most of us want to answer 'yes, of course!'; how could it be otherwise?  Most of us would endorse these ideas: ...

How many ways are there to say "Cost"? Certainly, more than one! When "they" ask: 'How do YOU manage cost?", yo...

Is your instinct to be a 'utility maximalist'? If so, you are someone who wants to ring every dollar of functional effectiveness out...

It's so damn frustrating! You spend a lot of time planning, coordinating, evaluating .... And then it's D-Day, circumstances interve...

When it's OPM -- other people's money -- the client gets to make the priority judgments. I call them "influencers and discrimi...