Creative Work is Essentially A Structure of Captures

Creativity is the force that enables us to see the world in a new way and find solutions to problems we can’t even begin to solve using logic and reasoning. But, with so many of our routines and patterns automated, how do we access this creativity again? How do we spark it back into life? Read More …

The 3 Stages of Creative Project Management

A creative project is a process that starts with an idea and has many different stages. The stages of a creative project will vary, depending on the type of work being done. These 3 stages can be seen in almost every creative project: Concept, Vision, and Production. In the first stage, a concept of work Read More …

Should Projects Ever End?

Evan Leybourn pioneered the field of Agile Business Management; applying the successful concepts and practices from the Lean and Agile movements to corporate management. He keeps busy as a senior IT executive, business management consultant, non-executive director, conference speaker, internationally published author and father. In this podcast, Evan breaks new ground and challenges the notion that projects Read More …

Can Change be Managed like a Project?

David J. Anderson is a thought leader in managing effective technology development. He leads a consulting, training and publishing business dedicated to developing, promoting and implementing sustainable evolutionary approaches for management of knowledge workers. David is CEO of Lean-Kanban University, a business dedicated to assuring the quality of training in Lean and Kanban throughout the Read More …

Interfacing Agile w Conventional Projects

Excerpt from a recent Podcast with Jon M. Quigley PMP CTFL a principal and founding member of Value Transformation, a product development training and cost improvement organization established in 2009. He has nearly twenty five years of product development experience, ranging from embedded hardware and software through verification and project management. From the podcast: Joe: Read More …

Handling Impossible Projects

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! was my guest last week in the podcast, How do you Handle an Impossible Project? This is a transcription of the podcast. Download or view the PDF: Handling Impossible Projects Read More …