I am good at setting boundaries between work and the rest of my life. I’m the sort of person who can take a company Blackberry on vacation, check it twice…
Year: <span>2015</span>
A few months ago, I had a conversation about project management with a very smart biotech executive. I described the agile project management methods common in software projects, and he was…
One of my favorite things to do is teach other people how to better manage their projects. It is also one of the hardest things I do. I’ve been thinking…
The way most organizations promote people into management is, to put it bluntly, terrible. New managers are selected on technical skill and maybe some vague concept of “leadership potential,” given…
I should really call this post “How to Slip a Schedule without Making Everyone Hate You,” because slipping the schedule is the easy part: you just fail to deliver on…
In my most recent Management Monthly newsletter, I shared a Harvard Business Review article about visualizing work. I am a big fan of visualizing work. I currently use Trello for…
Last Friday, I drove from my home in San Diego to Los Angeles to give a talk. The talk went well. I had a great time and am glad I…
I’m running another session of my “introduction to project management for non-project managers” class, called Better Projects Through Better Planning. This is the same class I offered in June under the…
In the introduction to last month’s Management Monthly newsletter, I wrote about the fact that my philosophy for both management and personal productivity (which I view as a “managing myself”…
You’ve probably heard about the need to “manage up”- but what does that really mean? To me, it means interacting with your supervisor and other managers up the chain in…