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 16, 2020 | Agile, Agile Project Management, management failure, project management
After daily coordination events (a.k.a. Scrums, standups or huddles), velocity might be the most misused tool by teams new to agile and the stakeholders supporting them. Used appropriately, it can help a team to understand how much work they can complete in a fixed...
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 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...
by Kiron Bondale | May 31, 2020 | Agile, management failure, personal development, project management, team building
A few years back, I wrote an article in which I provided some gardening tips to developing good teams. I’m spending more time tending my garden these days so I decided to share a few more lessons for those wishing to cultivate a team building “green thumb”....
