Kranz Dictum: Miracle behind Apollo 13

Have you ever been part of an impossible project? Next week’s Business901 podcast guest is Michael Dobson, author of Project: Impossible – How the Great Leaders of History Identified, Solved and Accomplished the Seemingly Impossible – and How You Can Too!. The book was a fun read for me and so was the podcast. Michael Read More …

Is Amazon re-creating the Milkman?

I will show my age a little here, but I actually remember the milkman with a cap, and I think a uniform. It was a Meadow Gold truck that, if I remember correctly was this faded yellow, practically beige with a red Meadow Gold insignia on the side. This is stretching back to my earliest Read More …

Project Management Lessons Learned

It took me two podcasts, Patterns of Behavior affect Projects and  Lesson Learned in Project Management to capture the thoughts of Mel Bost, author of the highly regarded blog, “MEL BOST PMO EXPERT. In the Blog, Mel addresses structure, activities, and behavior of a Program Management Office (PMO) environment. Mel is a principal with BOT Read More …

Manage your Project with a Single Page

In a past Business901 Podcast, One Page Project Manager Podcast, with Mick Campbell co-founder and Managing Partner of OPPM International, we discussed the most recent book in the series, The New One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper. The One-Page Project Manager sets a new standard as an Read More …

Patterns of Behavior affect Projects

In an earlier Business901 podcast, Lesson Learned in Project Management, Mel Bost and I discussed his thinking around Project Closeouts. There was a portion of the podcast that I edited that I thought stood on its own merit. It was a section on Patterns of Behavior. I think you will find this short edition will Read More …

Lesson Learned in Project Management

Are you good at closing out a project? By that time most of are so happy to see it completed that the drudgery of going back to point fingers and establish blame is the last thing we want to do. However, the greater value, even more so than the actual project, often times, is the Read More …