Managing Projects Across Multiple Time-zones – Part 2
This post is Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1 covered the essential information needed to understand the remote team environment. Part 2 covers more nuanced aspects of social and cultural relationships, including: Building relationships with the Lo-Fi version of...
Managing Projects Across Multiple Time-zones – Part 1
Recently I was asked a question about managing projects across multiple timezones. I think I know a bit about that, so I jotted down a few notes; then some more. The list kept getting longer and longer. Eventually, I realised I needed to publish them in two parts....
Dysfunctional CV-19 Patterns Resonate in Project Management
This is an abstract of a Medium yarn I published a couple days ago. if you're interested in the full read, go check out "3 scary behaviours seen during Covid-19 to improve on in life and avoid in projects" Over the months of the CV-19 pandemic, I've noticed...
What is a project? Part 4: Non-definitional elements
This post drills into the detail of the many attributes of projects that are non-definitional, but are critical to the effective management of projects.
What is a project Part 3 – comparing other definitions
This post reviews the reasons we don’t need specified elements and the implications of removing them. We’ll do this by looking at other definitions.
What is a project Part 2 – Unpacking the definition
Continuing the series What is a Project. In this post, we unpack in more detail the main elements of this simple definition of a project.
Reworking project management: a selection of tools
This post is a working list of core analysis concepts. These concepts will give us the tools to build new ways of project management practice.
What is a project Part 1 – A simple definition
Last post I laid out the "Manifesto for Action". I want to establish a broad and inclusive concept of project management that looks at fundamentals and avoids sectarian labels. The first step towards this goal is to define a set of conceptual tools that avoid labels,...
Making projects sexy again – The Manifesto for Action
Resolving the nine meta-problems with the above nine objectives is my “Manifesto for Action” on project management. If project management can achieve even some of these things, then it is worth getting excited about again.
Nine project management “meta-problems” that block us
I have now published yarns that each describe one of the nine (9) project management "meta-problems" that I believe we need to resolve before we can start making improvements to project management practice. This is a summary page for those 8 posts, with links to each....