Musings on Project Management

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Heat Batteries

Musings on Project Management

Does your project need green energy for development purposes, or is your project incorporating green energy in a deliverable?Perhaps a Heat Battery fits your need.As reported by the WSJ:". researchers are developing heat batteries—also called thermal batteries—that store renewable energy as heat and then release it on demand to power industrial processes.

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Redesigning the "Meeting"

Musings on Project Management

From Connor Grant at the WSJ:The traditional business meeting is changing; the 'pandemic' made me do it!Here is Grant's reporting -- somewhat abridged -- on changes now in place and expected to come:1.

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Responding to an RFP. Steps1 and 2

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Are you a proposal leader tasked with responding to a competitive RFP?An RFP from a private sector customer or from the public sector?And if from the public sector, local, state, or federal?And if from the federals, defense or non-defense?Every one of those customer groups will have their own style, culture, and constraining rules, regulations, and statutes.

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Managing idle white space

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My advice is always to schedule loosely, spreading buffers at strategic points to protect the critical path and even the feeder paths. Strategically: sound advice. But. If you do this, your schedule is going to have idle time or 'white space'. Some would look at that and see schedule dollars slipping by. What's a good tactical thing to do?

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Asymmetrical Value Proposition

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I've written a couple of books on project value; you can see the book covers at the end of this blog.One of my themes in these books is a version of cybernetics:Projects are transformative of disparate inputs into something of greater value.

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Scheduling: Don't do this

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'The mistake' to avoid in scheduling is to construct a milestone-success situation that strictly depends upon two or more tasks scheduled (planned) to finish at the same time.So, what's the big error here?

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Layoffs? I've got a project to run

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Well, talk about cratering a schedule and resource plan!Layoffs in the middle of a project will do it for you.But wait!There may be a silver lining here:Communication complexity in and among project participants decreases as the square of participants. That could be a winnerYou may be able to select the departees.

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