by Kiron Bondale | Oct 11, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, PMO metrics, Process Peeves, project management
I usually advise my students to encourage their team members to not provide padded work estimates, but rather to make schedule contingencies visible and tie these contingencies to milestones rather than to individual activities. This is intended to counter the...
by Kiron Bondale | Sep 13, 2020 | Agile, Process Peeves, project management, Project management terms, Project performance
In 2015 I wrote an article intending to debunk some common myths about project management. Like many of you, I spent a reasonable amount of time during my first few years participating in online forums correcting agile misconceptions. Unfortunately, just like lopping...
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 | Feb 23, 2020 | improving project management, management failure, Process Peeves, project decision making, project management, team building, Valuable projects
The WHO recently renamed the virus which had initially been referred to as Novel Coronavirus to COVID-19. While this new name is easier to pronounce and is more specific (Coronavirus being a family of viruses), it is no more informative than its former name. This is...
by Kiron Bondale | Jan 26, 2020 | Agile, Agile Project Management, customer satisfaction, Process Peeves, Stakeholder analysis
The link between transparency and trust is well known. You are more likely to trust the quality of the food you are served when eating at a restaurant with an open concept kitchen than if the food preparation is done entirely out of sight. Transparency is a pillar of...
by Kiron Bondale | Dec 15, 2019 | Agile, Agile Project Management, Process Peeves, project management, Project management terms, Project performance, Valuable projects
(As is often the case, one of the learners in a course I taught this week provided the inspiration for this article, so thanks Maca!). The PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition defines Earned Value as “The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized...
