Musings on project management

First comes the planning You've followed all the standard protocols for setting up your risk management program. You've put slack in...

I written this before: "The critical path (CP) and the most important path (MIP) are different more often than you might think." ...

"Link and Buffer" is a leadership concept for a leader positioned between a governing board, to whom they must link the project, a...

Got a mystery in your project? Can't figure out what's happening, or Can't find the root cause -- after following all the method...

Why do they call it a black box? Maybe it should be just opaque. Either way, it's a system engineering idea: Encapsulate a function,  Ma...

Math may not be your favorite thing in the PMO, but hear me out. There are four 'systems' of math you are probably using without thi...

The presentation -- in the link below -- that I gave to PMI some years ago that makes an analogy between sailing a boat and Agile methods is...