Agile – do they secretly have a plan?
Results of my recent survey on Linkedin: So it’s quite a mixed bag; a few are really doing pure agile with no plan, just staying flexible and making it up […]
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Ways to get more time
There are five main ways, but if you look at overlaps between these five you get another ten: We already know about the five options for getting more done –
Pros and Cons of Fractalism
Pro traditional division into departments Pro fractal (where each person does everything: selling, designing, buying, stock control, making, finance etc ) It’s how an orchestra works It’s how you drive
My current projects
People keep asking me to work with them on exciting new ideas, and I wish I could, but all of us have finite time. I read somewhere that you should
The only three reasons you lose the sale
When you fail to make a sale, should you take it personally? Maybe! Here are the only three reasons: 1 – They didn’t like your offering. This is probably not your
The J of motivation
If you start at the bottom of the J, there are two ways you can go. The left hand route is the “push” route, where you force or threaten people
How can queues increase so much, so suddenly?
The length of queues will be proportional to “headroom”, and small changes in supply or demand can made a big difference to headroom, and therefore to the lengths of the
MrGantt fixes the road
I’d better not mention where exactly, but a large Council near here was building a big new road… it was going to cost £20m over 5 years. After the first
Fitting three into two – brief, business case, PID vs kick off meetings
There’s no doubt that you need two kick off meetings – the first one to decide what the project exactly is (this might require some debating between the stakeholders) and
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The Forbidden O-WORD
I joke that every time someone says the O-word a kitten dies. But I say that for a reason – so you have a little twinge of anxiety every time
“We’re on 54 when we should be on 50”
When you’re doing a project there are three things this could mean – two of them are very useful and important, and the third one is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! Let me
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Why my Project Management book is different – 10 reasons
This looks like any other Project Management handbook doesn’t it? But it’s not…. I’ve wanted to set the record straight on a few things for years now, and have finally
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The ultimate project management handbook, I hope!
Yes, I have finished writing The Quickstart Guide to Project Management – it took a while, it’s 300 pages, 100,000 words, and it really does tell you everything you need
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Everything is bad for you
Well, it looks as if water is OK. But anything at all interesting is bad, it seems. Smoothies, juice, vegan milk etc… But of all the things I like to
“Let’s make money from Crypto”
We’d all like to find an easy way to make money. But of course, no such thing exists, because supply and demand mean that if there is something easy and lucrative
