Kiron Bondale

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What won’t change…

Kiron Bondale

Based on the extensive media coverage, YouTube videos, TED Talks, and books published, many might agree that 2023 has been hailed as the year of artificial intelligence, at least in terms of mindshare if not market dominance. Throughout the past year, online project management communities have frequently discussed the potential impact of A.I. tools on the role of project managers.

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Five questions to answer before seeking a project management mentor

Kiron Bondale

Whether it is in one of LinkedIn’s project management discussion groups or in PMI’s Projectmanagement.com community, one of the more frequent requests made by members is for mentoring. Sometimes the mentee has done a good job of articulating their needs which will increase their odds of finding a suitable mentor but this is the exception, not the rule.

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Am I about to join a psychologically unsafe team?

Kiron Bondale

During a presentation I delivered today to members of the PMI Nova Scotia chapter on cultivating psychological safety, one of the attendees asked how would she be able to assess whether the team she was going to join was safe prior to joining. This is a great question because whenever we move to a new company or even a different division in a sufficiently large company, our access to verifiable information is quite limited.

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Applying the heuristics of “How Big Things Get Done” to adaptive delivery

Kiron Bondale

I read a number of project leadership books each year but usually I find only one or two which really make an impact. Professor Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner ‘s book “ How Big Things Get Done ” is one of the latter. I have never had the opportunity to lead a megaproject (the term is typically used for those with a budget in excess of $1 billion), but over the last fifteen years I have read a number of the articles published by Prof.

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Our project management future is analog…

Kiron Bondale

I’ve just finished reading The Revenge of Analog and The Future is Analog by David Sax. In both of these books, he provides compelling arguments supported by a number of case studies taken from different domains to show that while some might envision the future as becoming more and more digital, we will continue to cherish and yearn for analog experiences.

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Why do we need flat head screwdrivers?

Kiron Bondale

After taking a break from writing for a few weeks, I was planning to write about the importance of conversation in the work we do, but a late day Mastodon toot caught my attention today: “ Gantt charts are lies “ Based on the hashtags accompanying the post, the author works in the software development domain using adaptive approaches. While I can empathize with the frustration underlying the post, it resonated with me in the same manner as if someone had written “ Flat head scr

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Don’t hate the game, hate the player

Kiron Bondale

(Before you correct me for misstating the iconic quote in this article’s title, read ahead) Over the past week, I’ve seen a number of posts from different practitioners on the Mastodon.world instance complaining about agile. Here are a few of the examples I’ve read: Agile events or meetings taking up most of the productive time each day User stories not providing an understanding of a user’s needs and wants Continuous delivery of changes resulting in significant unplanned

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