All in project management
This week, I get to spend several days in San Francisco at Realization's Project Flow 2009 conference. Hopefully, I get to meet some additional friends.
Glen Alleman of Herding Cats has a nice piece that talks about planning, What Does a Good Schedule Look Like? I offer up my list of elements of a good schedule.
Johanna Rothman suggests that one of the shortest words in the English language, is also one of the hardest to say. So, why is it?
Daniel Markham has some fun with "Estimating Project Size - What To Fix." The focus is on his baliwick of Agile project management, but the general ideas apply to most project planning activities.
The recent IAM Talking podcast, "The Problems of Process, In Practice," Dan Keldsen hosts a discussion with Bob Lewis of IT Catalysts, and there are a couple of elements that really connected with me.
Mary Abraham, always interesting, has a good one that relates to something I heard recently from one of my clients.
I had lunch the other day with Johanna Rothman and the topic of planning research work came up. It is difficult to plan research work because the very nature of research is one of iteration and uncertainty. You don't know if your experiment is going to work, so how can you build a formal plan of everything you plan to do?
Rick Cook at CIO.com has a piece on How to Spot a Failing Project. I can't help but comment on the article after yesterday's post.
Back in May, Stephen Seay had a bunch of reasons for Why Is My Project Late? at his Project Steps blog. The list included the usual suspects, but what about the management sources?
Anne Zelenka at Web Worker Daily had some interesting thoughts about a different mode of productivity that isn't harmed by multi-tasking. "Connected Mode: Multitasking for Productivity."
C. G. Lynch at CIO.com has Seven Reasons for Your Company to Start an Internal Blog from the just-completed Enterprise 2.0 conference.
Dennis McDonald is looking to survey people who are using blogs to support their project management work, either as the sole tool or in conjunction with other PM tools.
There's a time for every out-of-scope project task, and the time is later.
David Laffineuse provides a great quote on the mindset of resource managers in multi-project environments.
Nimmy gives us a nice quote that appears to be a German proverb, "Who begins too much accomplishes little."
Hal Macomber always has interesting things to say about the world project management. In Misunderstanding Project Planning as Anticipation he is thinking about the essense of planning.
The Project Management Podcast at the beginning of December interviewed Allen Elder of No Limits Leadership, who has been doing Critical Chain Project Management and Theory of Constraints for many years.
Johanna Rothman is looking at the Costs of Multitasking and asks for suggestions both on other aspects of multitasking and on how to evaluate their impact (cost).
Dave Munger at Cognitive Daily found a fun study about procrastination and deadlines. The short result: deadlines are effective means of reducing the Student Syndrome.
The August 2006 TOC Update from Goldratt Marketing Group includes an item on The Impact of Multitasking by Mike Mannion and Sven Ehrke.