by Kiron Bondale | Sep 6, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Risk Management
Harvard Business Review published an article this week about how boards can prepare for unexpected calamities such as pandemics, natural disasters or cyber-attacks. The authors provided a three-pronged approach for dealing with both true black swan events as well as...
by Kiron Bondale | Aug 23, 2020 | improving project management, personal development, project management, team building
The restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in more project managers working remotely. While this keeps everyone safe, it also means that there is a larger supply of project managers available to lead a given project since location is less...
by Kiron Bondale | Aug 2, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, governance, improving project management, management failure, Process Peeves, project management
(From Monty Python’s Flying Circus – Eric Idle) If a survey of teams was conducted to find out what they hated the most about working on projects, governance is likely to rank fairly high. Ask a group of project managers working for a large organization the same...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 26, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Risk Management, team building
Scott Adams does a good job above of illustrating one of the many perils of low levels of psychological safety within a team. Dilbert is trying to raise reasonable doubts with his leader, the Pointy-Haired Boss, but his concerns are met with the threat of losing his...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 19, 2020 | improving project management, project management
Long time readers of this blog will know that I occasionally like to draw lessons from other domains to project management. I am a foodie and pizza is one of my long-standing favorite foods. So I thought it would be interesting to see if there were parallels which...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 12, 2020 | improving project management, management failure, project decision making, project management, Project Portfolio Management, Valuable projects
I was asked a very unique question by one of the learners in a project management course I taught this week: “How do I motivate my team members when even I don’t believe in the project?“. While I’d been posed this question for the first time, it is not an uncommon...
