The Lazy Project Manager and the project from Hell

Peter Taylor has just today released a new book in the series about The Lazy Project Manager. Peter Taylor teaches us to think and act tactically and get as much profit as possible for as little effort as possible - at work and at home - an attitude to life!

For good reasons, I have not read the book yet - I 'm only writing this to give a free ex. to your e-reader here.

Read more about the book and Peter Taylor here.

Is Overview more important than Scheduling?

You know well the feeling that 'it swings' in a group / a team. It's usually when you are physically working together on something that you particularly feel that it is running. You can see and sense what is happening - Who does what? - What should I do now? - You will just help here? etc.

The tool Trello try a long way to create that sense of intimate cooperation even if you are physically separated. In Trello you can always see how tasks move around in the team and not least the move to the right of the 'project model'.

On the other hand, there is no Scheduling or Resource Management - only tasks, responsibilities and succession - but maybe it also enough?

See Trello here on Youtube - the video says it all. This may be the answer to all your prayers!

ISO21500 A Guide to Project Management is close!!

A few weeks ago the Committee TC236 (which also include the Association of Danish Project Management) completed 5 years of working with this standard. Now follow the polls, translations, etc., etc., in the bureaucracy of all bureakratier. Around august we will perhaps get the new standard!

 A new Committee is ofcourse immediately set up - it's called TC258 and should work for many years with: "create a useful and functional set of integrated standards to help improve project management world-wide."

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Dramas of Triangles

The Project Triangle is useful in setting expectations and to manage changes. An important (and unknown to most) additional facility is the prioritization of the Triangle: What is really important? and what is the second most important? It's a tremendous beneficial to know the priority from the start, so you can propose amendments accordingly through the project lifecycle and thus have the same ranking all the way.

An additional optional feature is to look at the prioritizing of the Triangle according to the Customer, for your company / your department and finally for your team / with you self. You will quickly be able to realize many of the problems that will certainly show up in your project if you carry out this exercise as part of any startup.

scaring figures for time consumption on checking mails!

The very good BRO Blog has got some interesting but scaring figures on mails here.

Quaterly Magazine about Project Management free

Now we can enjoy this excellent magazine for free here each quarter. The magazine is done by a broad based editorial team and there is emphasis on practical experiences rather than beautiful theories!

Enjoy!

No mails this year?

In November I wrote about the idea of ​​dropping the mail and instead gather communication about a project on dedicated project sites with chats and document storage, etc. At that time Atos planned to get rid of mail within three years.

Now reality has moved to Denmark where Exformatics've tried (and indeed survived) to be without mail for a month - with success. Read the article here. It is about focus and efficiency and to eliminate unnecessary mails big time.

As project manager you have always the possibility of taking steps in that direction on a project.

News from The Risk Doctor

Mr. David Hillson recommends to 'kill' The Risk Manager since this title tends to put the monkey at the wrong shoulders. Read the briefing here.