Selling Project Management to Reluctant Organizations
“Quite often, the business community will see project management as overhead, and as beauracracy.”
Brian Price talks about how to use the WBS as a selling tool in this short video. Check it out! Read more »
Lessons Learned from Anita Wotiz
Anita Wotiz is the guest blogger this week over at the UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Project Management blog. She published great post titled “An unrepeatable success?” Read it here.
It was great to hear about the project, specifically the lessons learned and trying to relate them to my own experience.
I wouldn’t write the first set [...] Read more »
Point 11 - Attribute Results to Processes
This may be the most controversial point, but in my opinion it is aligned with the rest of Deming’s philosophy nicely, and I agree with this point totally. In the US especially, Management By Objectives (MBO) is very much the status quo. I’ll give a short explanation of my opinion from an operational [...] Read more »
It Was An Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Weeny……
Finding the right balance of documentation and methodology can be challenging on small projects. Here are some tips.
I have been managing small projects for some time now. Some of my project are really tiny, I’m talking about 8 hours of work max. Others can be 2 week or month-long projects. Some [...] Read more »

