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 …

Why Projects Fail? – Dilbert

This is a video George Carr uploaded to YouTube and used in a lesson about “Why IT Projects fail” – told through the medium of Dilbert. Most of our careers or at least mine has been spent in managing projects. In the past several years, it seems that project management is taking a significant shift Read More …

We don’t use a Transactional Contract for Marriage, Why for Projects?

Lean Design and Lean Construction Consultant, Trainer and Author, Alan Mossman of The Change Business says; For the same reason that we don’t use a bilateral transactional contract for marriage, we use a relational contract. It’s now recognized that there’s much more sense in using a relational contract for these long term arrangements where we Read More …

Analyzing Failure on Projects

Affilite Post of the Week: Content is from the Ten Step Project Management Newsletter written by Tom Mochal. Visit The TenStep Store for templates, eBooks, PMP prep material and many other project management products. Analyzing Failure on Projects: Success and failure are integral to individual and corporate growth. Success is relatively easy to handle. Few Read More …

Do you define a start date on projects?

Define the Work: Project Start Date(Part 2 of 2) One of the characteristics of a project is that there is a definite start and end date. This seems simple enough until you start to try to define exactly what these dates mean. There are no universally recommended standards for either date. In many respects, it Read More …