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 | Dec 12, 2022 | improving project management, project decision making, project management, Risk Management
For those of you who are Do It Yourself (DIY) pros, you may not consider this a significant accomplishment, but not usually being a DIY’er, I am quite pleased with having installed ceramic wall tiles for the first time ever. In this particular case, the tiling was...
by Kiron Bondale | Nov 9, 2022 | Agile, improving project management, project decision making, project management, Risk Management
I am midway through Annie Duke’s latest book Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away. If you are not already familiar with Annie’s background, she was a very successful professional poker player who applied the lessons she learned from playing poker to writing...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 31, 2022 | project decision making, project management, Project performance, Risk Management
The final (pre-election) article in my series covering my election run for city councilor of Ward 4 in Welland, Ontario shares some of the key risks I’ve identified with this project and how I’m responding to them. In general, most projects will have two broad...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 24, 2022 | project decision making, project management, Project scheduling, Tailoring
In my previous article, I provided an overview of my current personal project of preparing for and running for election as one the city councilors in Welland, Ontario. With a good understanding of the constraints for this work, this week’s article will focus on three...
