Lives should be lived, not managed — I have heard, and often, that our lives are great projects. As project managers, we should run our lives as well as our work projects. This has permeated the atmosphere of the enthusiastic online project management community regardless of preferred methodology or framework. …

I have a deep interest in how knowledge management can blend with project management. My roots as a librarian have fueled my interest in how knowledge management fills a need in project management. …

When I was growing up, the playground favorite was the sandbox. The barrier between sand and grass was a hallowed division between hours of fun and imagination and a real world with bedtimes and schoolwork and requirements to eat vegetables with dinner. In my sandbox, I was king: I would…

Many project managers wouldn’t consider themselves to be the kind of people who get out in front of audiences to entertain and amaze. But we have an integral role to play in the success of our organizations. A little marketing now and then is a healthy thing. Once upon a…

“They’re not usually Lessons Learned,” an experienced project manager once told me. “They’re just Lessons Written Down.” I was surprised. I thought everybody knew how important it is to write down what was learned in a project and pass it on to inform and improve processes on future projects. …

My whole world is buzzing with anticipation and dread at the rise of ChatGPT and its host of digital minions. The prognostications are as wild and outlandish as they are far-reaching and dire. …

As I’ve wandered among the Agile sections of the internet, I’ve encountered many ideas and perspectives. Many are insightful and wise. Many are inscrutable and baffling to me. And there’s no view so baffling to me as the purist’s dogmatic adherence to an approach or framework. I’ve seen Agile practitioners…

Before I took on management of my first team of more than five people, I was nervous. I wondered if I could successfully provide what the team needed and worried that I wouldn’t possibly have answers for them. One of the things I did to prepare was to open a…

When you think about project management, what do you envision? For many (yes, even many in the field), the overwhelming number of images center around processes. We think of meticulous budgets, intricate project plans, task dependencies, critical path schedules, and earned value calculations. This is a real problem. I’ve spent…