by Kiron Bondale | Aug 20, 2023 | career planning, improving project management, Professional Development, project management
Whether it is in one of LinkedIn’s project management discussion groups or in PMI’s Projectmanagement.com community, one of the more frequent requests made by members is for mentoring. Sometimes the mentee has done a good job of articulating their needs which will...
by Kiron Bondale | Aug 7, 2023 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety
I’ve almost finished reading “Gigs, Hustles & Temps” by Jason Foster which is about precarious work and the negative impacts it creates on individuals, their families and society in general. While we might think of precarious work as something limited to Uber...
by Kiron Bondale | May 8, 2023 | Agile, improving project management, project decision making, project management, Risk Management
I read a number of project leadership books each year but usually I find only one or two which really make an impact. Professor Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner‘s book “How Big Things Get Done” is one of the latter. I have never had the opportunity to lead a megaproject...
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 | Mar 10, 2023 | Agile, improving project management, project management, Project performance
A question was posed on my Mastodon instance this morning about combining the roles of Product Owner and Agile Lead (e.g. Scrum Master). The requestor felt that this was a bad idea but wanted to get feedback on whether it was, in fact, possible to do so and under what...
by Kiron Bondale | Feb 27, 2023 | Agile, improving project management, project management, Project scheduling
After taking a break from writing for a few weeks, I was planning to write about the importance of conversation in the work we do, but a late day Mastodon toot caught my attention today: “Gantt charts are lies“. Based on the hashtags accompanying the post, the author...
