I’m in the early stages of a new project. This provides me with an excellent opportunity to pay closer attention to what I’m doing and why… and then write about…
Category: <span>project management</span>
The White House recently announced that it was raising the salary limit for qualifying for overtime pay, and the NIH announced it supported this move and thought that the best…
A lot of project management boils down to having the discipline to do something that you know is better in the long run, even though it might be harder in…
Back in February, I wrote about my personal time management system and the effort that I put into maintaining it. I promised to also write about my project management system,…
From time to time, I come across someone who argues that they don’t need to know how to manage projects. They have hired smart people, and those people know what…
I recently came across John Pencavel’s summary of the British government’s efforts to understand worker productivity in munitions plants during World War I, and was surprised it isn’t more widely…
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…
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…
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…