by Kiron Bondale | Nov 9, 2022 | Agile, improving project management, project decision making, project management, Risk Management
I am midway through Annie Duke’s latest book Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away. If you are not already familiar with Annie’s background, she was a very successful professional poker player who applied the lessons she learned from playing poker to writing...
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 | Aug 14, 2022 | improving project management, project management, Risk Management, team building
Baseball is a sport with something for everyone. Whether you are a statistician inspired by Moneyball, a foodie craving the hot dogs and popcorn, or a kid enjoying the pure sound of the ball hitting the bat’s sweet spot, it is hard to not appreciate some aspect of the...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 10, 2022 | Agile, communications, improving project management, project decision making, project management
Whether you call them Scrums, standups or huddles, one way to plan-as-you-go with an adaptive approach is to hold coordination events on a regular basis to ensure that everyone is working in an aligned manner and on the most important work. One of the more common...
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...
