LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Architecting procedural change within a business is hard work, but it’s the vital and often overlooked work that can make or break the long-term success of a business. No one knows this better than Kevin Kohls, Director of Continuous Improvement for Rex Materials Group , makers of refractory (heat-resistant) and high-temperature materials commonly used in the plastics, light metals, solar and semiconductor markets.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Thanks to Sean Craig's Live Sketch Note for capturing concepts directly from Woody Zuill's talk. This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. Let's look at these Notes and plausible responses to the conjectures. But first, let's look at the motivation for a blog post like this one from Bono's admonition.

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Project Management Hacks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Cornelius Fichtner and Bruce Harpham, PMI Congress 2015. Do you work with people in different locations? I often work with people in different offices and countries. It’s an interesting experience to navigate. This week, I appeared on Cornelius Fichtner ‘s excellent podcast the Project Management Podcast where we discussed remote work. As a side note, I recommend the PM PrepCast if you are studying for the PMP exam (created by Cornelius Fichtner’s company).

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The Digital Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Posted in General. 3,828.7 km, that’s all that separates me from this year’s Digital PM summit. Now just over a month away, if I was going to cycle (my preferred method of transport) to San Antonio from Vancouver, I should probably start riding tomorrow. That said, I think I’ll settle for flying – after all, I want to be in tip-top learning shape and when I get there, not just a sweaty mess.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Thought interferes with the probability of events, and in the long run therefore, with entropy - David L. Waston (1930). All project work is probabilistic, driven by underlying uncertainties, both reducible and irreducible. Willing an outcome in the presence of these uncertainties does not make is so. The only useful process to manage in the presence of uncertainty is to estimate the outcome of any decisions made by the participants of the processes by which the project operates.

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