by Kiron Bondale | Mar 27, 2023 | governance, improving project management, project decision making, project management, team building
I’ve just finished reading The Revenge of Analog and The Future is Analog by David Sax. In both of these books, he provides compelling arguments supported by a number of case studies taken from different domains to show that while some might envision the future as...
by Kiron Bondale | Aug 21, 2022 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, governance, improving project management, project management, Psychological Safety, Risk Management
Thanks to the most recent issue of Tom Geraghty’s weekly Psychological Safety newsletter, I learned about a new model for how we consider safety and risk. He shared Eric Hollnagel’s work on resiliency in which two distinct mindsets were identified: Safety-I and...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 3, 2022 | governance, improving project management, Process Peeves, project decision making, project management
One of the unfortunate perceptions which many project managers face when trying to do their jobs is that some stakeholders perceive that they are just bureaucratic paper-pushers. While there are certainly some ineffective project managers who put a greater emphasis on...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 26, 2022 | Agile, governance, improving project management, project management, team building
Playing a board game without all participants having a consistent understanding of the rules is a frustrating, time-wasting experience. The same is true when a team starts to work together for the first time. Whether it is done proactively when the team assembles or...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 21, 2022 | governance, improving project management, project decision making, project management, Project performance, Stakeholder analysis
One of the distinguishing characteristics of project work is that we are usually expected to deliver value in uncertain conditions while facing multiple constraints. While it is important for a team to understand the external constraints they have and to define...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 5, 2022 | governance, improving project management, project management, Risk Management
Most project managers will include some contingency reserves within their budget to offset the negative financial impacts of realized risks. Determining how much to put aside for a rainy day might be done from a top-down method such as using a flat percentage derived...
