My girlfriend and I booked a trip to a sunny beach vacation paradise for next month. This morning, I got an email from the company through which we booked it, telling us we needed to download eDocuments, provided us with a link, and instructions to download them. So I clicked the link in my usual […]
This has been an especially brutal winter. Polar Vortexes, and frigid winds that chill me to the bone have accomplished what no winter before has been able to do. It has forced me to run inside on the dreaded treadmill. That’s right- the dreadmill. How do some people do it? I haven’t run outside in […]
This post will discuss the length of my opinion on municipal politics, and pretty much my opinion of it as well. It’s not centralized to Rob Ford. It’s all municipal politicians who deserve each other. Being a Torontonian, and having voted in the last municipal election where Rob Ford was on the ballot for mayor. […]
There are three (3) project management take aways from a parable I once was given as a nascent project manager. During the early days of Soviet/U.S space race, NASA spent millions researching a pen that would function normally in zero-G. The Soviets opted for a simpler solution and sent up their cosmonauts with a pencil. […]
No one is a Project Management robot. Especially when you’re a battle hardened Project Manager, you have probably picked up a few bad habits. The Project Management Institute Methodology can be an intimidating beast. If you’re looking at upping your game by integrating PMI best practices into your own practice, there are baby steps you […]
Project Management is an operational exercise and requires a very practical approach. When considering the adoption of a methodology into your practice you should never accept methodology in it’s pure form. It should be up a lump of play-do that you can form and kneed into a shape that benefits your practice, not hinders that. […]