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Are you giving your team members “breakfast”?

Are you giving your team members “breakfast”?

by Kiron Bondale | May 8, 2022 | improving project management, management failure, personal development, project management, Project performance

In a project-oriented structure where the project manager has people management responsibilities for their team members, it is expected that an individual’s performance on project work is the primary basis for their formal (HR) evaluation. But in a matrix structure,...
Are you Batman? If not, get a real charter!

Are you Batman? If not, get a real charter!

by Kiron Bondale | Apr 17, 2022 | governance, improving project management, management failure, project decision making, project management

In the project management world, being a vigilante is rarely advisable. Managing a project without proper authorization is not keeping Gotham or your company safe. And the Commissioner Gordon of your organization is more likely to put you in Arkham Asylum than...
Why hold retrospectives if ideas don’t get implemented?

Why hold retrospectives if ideas don’t get implemented?

by Kiron Bondale | Apr 10, 2022 | Agile, improving project management, lessons learned, management failure, Process Peeves, project management

I’ve written and spoken frequently about the many issues with holding infrequent lessons learned sessions. The good news is that many practitioners now recognize that it is much better to discuss and implement improvement ideas frequently over the life of their...
What do you call a Product Owner with no authority?

What do you call a Product Owner with no authority?

by Kiron Bondale | Mar 27, 2022 | Agile, improving project management, management failure, project management, Project performance

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. to remind us of the key characteristics of an effective Product Owner: Collaborative – Are they able and willing to negotiate with stakeholders about needs, wants and priorities to come up with an...
Refusing to accept facts doesn’t change reality

Refusing to accept facts doesn’t change reality

by Kiron Bondale | Mar 6, 2022 | improving project management, management failure, project management, Project scheduling

This article was originally supposed to have been based on a poll I conducted this week on schedule compression techniques. However, a discussion from a project management fundamentals course I taught was too compelling to not share! While teaching the basics of the...
Pitfalls of referencing agile

Pitfalls of referencing agile

by Kiron Bondale | Nov 25, 2021 | Agile, communications, improving project management, management failure, project management

One of the clichés you will run across if you read enough articles or watch enough videos about agility is that we should be using the term as an adjective rather than as a noun. Here are a couple of examples of this misuse. “We are doing agile” Agile is an umbrella...
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