Musings on project management
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Scale makes it different
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Scale is its own thing. Bigger is not always better, but it's always different. For that matter, so is smaller. Look no farther than phy...
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Shifting baseline syndrome
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It's a rare project of any significant scale that does not rebaseline sometime in the life of the project. Why rebaseline? The PM rebase...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Are you sinking? Or sunk?
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Let's keep the basics in front of us: Projects are transformative processes packaged together Inputs (cash, people, buildings and tools,...
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Making a prediction?
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Making a prediction? Something to forecast? Milton Friedman (deceased now), distinguished economist and notably conservative when it came to...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
What's the worst case?
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Perhaps the most common question in risk management, if not in project management is this one: "What's the worst case that can happ...
Sunday, November 12, 2023
quality Assurance is free; QC is not
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Philip Crosby is credited with the idea that "Quality is Free", and he made some money on the book by the same title ... still ava...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Owner's rep: the why and what
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Having spent the past nearly 10 years in an "owner's rep" role, I can endorse what the American Bar Association (to whom I wou...
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