We’re all Event Planners Now

An excerpt from a conversation/podcast, I had with Russ Unger. Russ is a user experience consultant and the co- author of Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation (Voices That Matter). Related Podcast and Transcription: Facilitation Guideline Advice Joe:     I had a feeling that this is somewhat, not necessarily the whole resume or the Read More …

Project Management: Competing for Someone’s Time

Bob Lewis, president of IT Catalysts and author of Bare Bones Project Management: What you can’t not do and Bare Bones Change Management: What you shouldn’t not do was part of a discussion with me on project and change management. An excerpt from the discussion is below.  Joe:  People think that to manage a project Read More …

Does a Change Edict Work?

Joe:  David, you are saying that for change management that it’s not like we just throw everything away. We are keeping some of it and making an evolutionary change rather than an edict that this is what we’re going to do now. I asked that question of David Anderson, a thought leader in managing effective Read More …

Q & A on Project Management #2

In the a blog post early this week, Interview Questions and Answers on Project Management, I listed several questions that I have been asked on project management. I thought I would finish up the week with the rest of questions from the interview. Hope you enjoy! What part of this project most appeals to you? Read More …

Questions & Answers on Project Management

A set of questions I was recently asked that I thought might shed some light on how I think and what I do:  What is your experience in project management, especially for startups?  In some respect, everything is a project. In startups that I have worked we have spent most of our time on finding Read More …

Handle an Impossible Project?

Michael Dobson (@sidewisethinker), author of Project: Impossible – How the Great Leaders of History Identified, Solved and Accomplished the Seemingly Impossible – and How You Can Too! said in the podcast: Well, to be honest one of the things, if it hasn’t happened in your career yet, I’m saying this to the audience. I’m sure Read More …