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 | 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 | Oct 26, 2022 | project management, Risk Management
Those of you who read my articles regularly will know that I took a hiatus from writing about leadership and delivery topics over the past couple of months to focus on my first time campaign running for one of the city councilor seats in Welland. Election day was this...
by Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy | Sep 8, 2022 | Risk Management
It is hard to imagine what you can do with a project risk. Yes. Avoid, mitigate, transfer, and so on. But what does it mean? What specific actions can you take to avoid something? What can you, as a project manager, do to mitigate a risk? Adding some risk reserves and...
by Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy | Sep 8, 2022 | Risk Management
Qualitative risk analysis boosts the chances for project success dramatically. If I were to choose one thing to improve in my project management – it would be it. Why? I honestly believe that this risk analysis in more than enough for small and medium projects....