When you are stuck in traffic, you have free time — just kidding — for random thoughts to bubble up into your conscious mind. On one such occasion, I found myself considering the similarities between the construction of articles on Wikipedia and PMI’s Guide to the Project Management...
Arguably, one of the most important phases of a project — getting everyone on the same page – occurs during the requirements meeting(s). The meeting with staff to develop the project requirements is the culmination of the initial effort to create a project charter, scope, schedule and budget. The...
How many of you thought this post was going to be about Facebook, LinkedIn, twitter, and BLOGS?? Wrong! My thoughts today are about the value of old-fashioned social networking, as opposed to tweeting and posting to online services like LinkedIn and Facebook. Building a network of professional contacts...
I have spoken in the past about Microsoft SharePoint® and its support for collaborative development and information sharing. This week I have talked to many organizations who wish to start transitioning from previous SharePoint servers(2003 and 2007) to a more updated SharePoint (2007 or 2010). I applaud...
It seems I cannot go anywhere these days without seeing people talking on cell phones, texting, taking phone pictures and sharing them – sometimes many of these at once. People want to use every free minute to communicate with someone. And, before you ask; yes, this is the pot calling the kettle black...
Change is a constant in a project manager’s world (well really in everyone’s world!). People who fail to learn—to increase their understanding and skills—find adapting to changing conditions and requirements challenging, if not impossible. Just as individuals need constantly to learn, so do organizations...
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Inside the nether regions of large companies lurk individuals and offices that are part of executing a project but reside organizationally outside of the project’s chain of command. Placed within the somewhat amorphous group of support organizations are specialists in IT, travel, legal, facilities, HR...
Yammer removes the friction in company-wide collaboration.
I did an interview with Bas de Baar via Skype video. We discussed how my company is using collaborative tools in support of our clients' projects. Enjoy! ©2009 Hal for Reforming Project Management, . | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: collaboration, lean, teams...
Project performance reviews are dead; long live performance reviews. A standard practice on projects is to conduct a lessons learned (post mortem) at the end of a project. In my opinion it doesn't produce much value. The current project is over so can't benefit from what is said. The project...