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 | Jun 28, 2020 | Agile, project decision making, project management, Project performance, Risk Management
Articles have been written about the importance of doing just enough planning to develop confidence in what we are proposing to do as well as the perils of either too much or too little planning. But even a good enough plan can become obsolete at some point and we...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 21, 2020 | Agile, Agile Project Management, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, project decision making, Stakeholder analysis
An article from Harvard Business Review reminded me that becoming an effective Product Owner (PO) requires a lot more than interpersonal skills, empowerment, capacity and even product knowledge. In the article, the authors explained that leaders having a high level of...
by Kiron Bondale | Apr 12, 2020 | Agile, Agile Project Management, improving project management, project decision making, project management, Project performance
Ontario has the second highest number of cases of COVID-19 within Canada but it lags all other provinces in terms of testing when measured on a per capita basis. This concern has been raised multiple times by members of the press and finally, this week, the provincial...
by Kiron Bondale | Mar 15, 2020 | Agile, Agile Project Management, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project decision making, project management
The product owner role is extremely challenging for most organizations to fill. It is also the role which has the greatest impact on achieving expected delivery outcomes. An average delivery team might still be able to successfully launch a product or service even if...
by Kiron Bondale | Mar 1, 2020 | Agile, Agile Project Management, improving project management, project decision making, project management, Risk Management
Part of tailoring our approach to delivering a project needs to consider its relative level of uncertainty. While it is not the only determinant of complexity, uncertainty is certainly a key contributing factor. And while there are other dimensions which need to be...
