by Kiron Bondale | Apr 4, 2021 | improving project management, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety, Risk Management
(Homelander image is from the Amazon Prime series. The character was created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.) When we think of mythical heroes, they possess such traits as: Showing confidence in the face of overwhelming challengesDemonstrating a lack of...
by Kiron Bondale | Mar 28, 2021 | Agile, improving project management, management failure, project management, Project scheduling, Risk Management
A project manager asked me a question which I’ve frequently been posed over my career. How should I deal with a stakeholder who, when I provide a rough order of magnitude ranged estimate early in the life of a project, insists on holding me accountable to the lower...
by Kiron Bondale | Mar 21, 2021 | Agile, improving project management, project management, Risk Management
This article represents the confluence of three separate concepts I read about this week. The first came when I read Michael Küsters’s article Why WSJF is Nonsense which details the downside of blindly ranking work packages based on the Weighted Shortest Job First...
by Kiron Bondale | Mar 14, 2021 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, personal development, project management, Risk Management, team building
The happy path for a project manager is shepherding their project’s delivery from start to finish. Just like raising one’s own child to the point where they have become an independent adult, there is a sense of accomplishment which you only get from having been there...
by Kiron Bondale | Mar 7, 2021 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety
Accountability is a popular word in delivery. It is one of the four classification categories in roles and responsibility tools such as R.A.C.I. charts. The underlying intent is sound. If multiple people are responsible for contributing to the completion of an...
by Kiron Bondale | Feb 28, 2021 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, project management, Psychological Safety, Risk Management, team building
In 2014 I wrote an article about the benefits which diversity in team composition can bring to risk identification. With different backgrounds and experiences, team members will usually identify a richer set of risks than might be defined by a group with limited...
