by Kiron Bondale | Jul 17, 2022 | project decision making, project management, Tailoring
Last year I wrote three articles about the project management tools and techniques I used for managing our inter-city relocation. Every four years, the municipalities within the province of Ontario hold elections for city council, the role of mayor, school board...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 10, 2022 | Agile, communications, improving project management, project decision making, project management
Whether you call them Scrums, standups or huddles, one way to plan-as-you-go with an adaptive approach is to hold coordination events on a regular basis to ensure that everyone is working in an aligned manner and on the most important work. One of the more common...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 3, 2022 | governance, improving project management, Process Peeves, project decision making, project management
One of the unfortunate perceptions which many project managers face when trying to do their jobs is that some stakeholders perceive that they are just bureaucratic paper-pushers. While there are certainly some ineffective project managers who put a greater emphasis on...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 21, 2022 | governance, improving project management, project decision making, project management, Project performance, Stakeholder analysis
One of the distinguishing characteristics of project work is that we are usually expected to deliver value in uncertain conditions while facing multiple constraints. While it is important for a team to understand the external constraints they have and to define...
by Kiron Bondale | May 22, 2022 | improving project management, project decision making, project management
When a project is bigger than can be delivered efficiently with a single large team, it is common practice to divide the work among a number of smaller teams. While the coordination overhead of managing multiple teams is introduced, doing so reduces the effort...
by Kiron Bondale | May 15, 2022 | improving project management, project decision making, project management
The PMBOK® Guide, Seventh Edition defines a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) as a “hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables“. While this...