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The Project Manager’s “Predator Helmet”: Nine diagnostic filters for your projects
In complex and dynamic projects, it’s hard to filter out the noise and focus on just one element. You might want to diagnose some particular problem with a temporary narrow and deep perspective. In the film “Predator”, the alien’s helmet has an enhanced viewport with...
The Hysteresis of Hysteria – The 11-Step Cycle of a System Crisis
If you've been a project manager for any time, you've probably experienced an emergency. Sometimes it happens during a project, say during system testing. The test configuration was working fine, and then "bam!" something changes, and it flips over to being wholly...
The Gradient of Terror – Project management and non-linear forces
Non-linear dynamics and project management is a recurring topic for me, e.g. Project management uses linear tools for non-linear situations and Linear and Non-Linear Thinking in Project Management. But the Covid-19 pandemic underscored the inability of many people to...
Project Management Concepts
The Project Manager’s “Predator Helmet”: Nine diagnostic filters for your projects
In complex and dynamic projects, it’s hard to filter out the noise and focus on just one element. You might want to diagnose some particular problem with a temporary narrow and deep perspective. In the film “Predator”, the alien’s helmet has an enhanced viewport with...
The Gradient of Terror – Project management and non-linear forces
Non-linear dynamics and project management is a recurring topic for me, e.g. Project management uses linear tools for non-linear situations and Linear and Non-Linear Thinking in Project Management. But the Covid-19 pandemic underscored the inability of many people to...
Rethinking the (Work) Breakdown Structure – Part 2.4: Summarising the pivot points
This post wasn’t planned. The last post wrapped up the 3-part series that unpacked our pivot points in more detail, after the headline post. I realised that the 4 posts contain a lot of material and had evolved a bit in the writing of them. So, I thought it would be...
Project Management Skills
The Gradient of Terror – Project management and non-linear forces
Non-linear dynamics and project management is a recurring topic for me, e.g. Project management uses linear tools for non-linear situations and Linear and Non-Linear Thinking in Project Management. But the Covid-19 pandemic underscored the inability of many people to...
Rethinking the (Work) Breakdown Structure – Part 2.4: Summarising the pivot points
This post wasn’t planned. The last post wrapped up the 3-part series that unpacked our pivot points in more detail, after the headline post. I realised that the 4 posts contain a lot of material and had evolved a bit in the writing of them. So, I thought it would be...