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 …

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 …