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Entries from February 2008

Coping with Parkinson’s Law

February 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Parkinson’s Law – the concept that work expands to meet the time available – is a common human behavioral reality. To deal with it, we can always tighten up the timeframe or define the work and deliverables more explicitly, but it is not always so straightforward to deal with.

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Tags: Project Management Process

“Mine the Gold” in the People Around You!

February 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I was recently at an off site meeting for an office of about 25 people. There were many interesting things about the experience, and I would like to document a few. The upshot is that the people around you are tremendous resources, and you can tap that, it is like mining gold!

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Tags: Soft Skills

Activity and Resource Estimating for Projects

February 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

The PMBOK specifies that there is a process for Activity and Resource Estimating. There are a variety of nuances to this process and it is very important to a project’s success that project team members have the skills to produce accurate estimates.

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Tags: Project Management Process