#41 – WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW COULD KILL – YOUR PROJECT – MARK MOORE
I’m going to leverage one more story about my daughter, because it clearly illustrates a problem my wife and I could have avoided had we not been so intent at placing our own interpretation and...
View Article#42 – MR. TOAD’S WILD RIDE (A LESSON IN STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT) – MARK MOORE
The classic book The Wind in the Willows was a bit of a difficult read for me in my younger years. In fact, I’m pretty sure I didn’t actually finish it. I recall it got kind of bogged down and …...
View Article#45 – GOING TO VERSION 2.0 – MARK MOORE
We see it all the time. From the little stickers on boxes or the huge signs touting the ‘new and improved version’ of something we already own. Household cleaning products are nearly infamous for it....
View Article#49 – DON’T HEAR WHAT I’M NOT SAYING – MARK MOORE
I’ll readily admit that one of my ‘guilty pleasures’ from the world of entertainment is Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Like many, I experienced snippets of it via my local PBS station and came to love...
View Article#53 – 5 PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS I LEARNED WHILE WAITING TABLES – HEATHER...
I ran across the following recently and the title made me click and read. Then I shared it with some peers. In thinking about it, I realized it needed to be re-posted here on our forum to get it even...
View Article#56 – FORGET ABOUT THE MULE – LOAD THE WAGON – MARK MOORE
I have a colleague who uses the title as one of his social media tag lines. It always made me laugh – but it also causes me to let out a heavy sigh. I’ve seen it far more as reality … Continue reading →
View Article#59 – LEVERAGING DIVERSITY ON EVERY PROJECT – KIRON BONDALE AND MARK MOORE
My cyber colleague Kiron Bondale posted his original article on his blog, Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice. I encourage you to read it as it’s good advice on its own. With his permission, I’ve...
View Article#72 – THE RISK OF AN ABSENTEE SPONSOR – MARK MOORE
Oh, you’ve been there … that much I know. You are the Project Manager on something with high visibility and you are also stuck with a project sponsor who acts more like an absentee landlord than a...
View Article#84 – PROGRAM UMBRELLA ABUSE – MARK MOORE
For most of us in the IT world, two major events over the last twenty years rank as “life changing”. One is predominantly US-based and the other one caused the entire world to watch with anticipation....
View Article#85 – CORPORATE CATARACTS – MARK MOORE
Leadership with vision is great. It’s absolutely necessary. But it won’t get you where you intend to go if you have no strategy to fulfill it. Like anything else, it takes planning and action. Oh,...
View Article#91 – FAKING MATURITY – MARK MOORE
I’ve been thinking about the old Hans Christian Anderson fable “The Emperor’s New Clothes” lately. It’s been on my mind as I read current articles regaling us with tales of corporate leadership and...
View Article#94 – THERE IS NO “I” IN TEAM, BUT …– MARK MOORE
So there is no “I” in team. We’ve heard that dozens of times before. Yet, if I really strip things back to where I have the most control, “I” stand alone. Others may benefit from my leadership, my...
View Article#96 – PROJECT STEERING COMMITTEES – ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS – MARK MOORE
I participate in several professional social networks and mostly let the questions asked pass. One I saw recently (because Howard Weiner, who will do a follow-up post to this article commented) asked...
View Article#99 – THE CASE FOR RETURNING TO BINARY – MARK MOORE
It’s an odd title, I know. But as a seasoned project manager and IT professional with over three decades of experience across multiple industries, there are some things that really don’t change much....
View Article#101 – CAUSE OF DEATH: INVALID ASSUMPTIONS – MARK MOORE
As seasoned project managers, we are very familiar with identifying and managing risks (though too often, the activity stops with identifying and we “wing it” from there). I’ve written here on CERM...
View Article#102 – ASSUMPTIONS: WHAT YOU KNOW MAY KILL YOU – HOWARD WIENER
In his post Cause of Death: Invalid Assumptions, my colleague Mark Moore observed that project risk management often excludes consideration of underlying assumptions on which event probabilities and...
View Article#106 – CRESCENT WRENCH VS. BOX WRENCH – MARK MOORE
Odd title I know, but do you expect anything different from me? I had this thought a while back – a memory of past busted up knuckles to be clear – that my family didn’t have many tools while I …...
View Article#109 – GET THE HINT, SO YOUR PROJECT DOESN’T END UP IN PIECES – MICHAEL STRATTON
My brother and I LOVED baseball. We grew up in Oklahoma but we could watch Harry Caray on WGN or Bob Horner and the Braves on TBS just about every day of the week. We collected baseball cards. We...
View Article#111 – PREDICT FUTURE BENEFITS THROUGH EFFECTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT – KIRON BONDALE
Benefits management needs to be practiced over the full lifecycle of the project and beyond. An integral component of benefits management is the regular re-validation of expected benefits. If this is...
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