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On Earned Value Management
Earned value management (EVM), is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress in an objective manner. Because EVM has the ability to combine measurements of scope,...
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Resilience – The Key to Thriving Through Change
Psychological resilience is an individual's tendency to cope with stress and adversity. This coping may result in the individual "bouncing back" to a previous state of normal functioning, or simply not...
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Who Manages Benefits?
Benefits are a consequence of management actions and decisions starting with initiation right through to the operations of the changed organisation.Maximising the benefits realised from a project or...
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Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
A resource to which project managers, students, and business leaders can turn to understand the specialized terms that form the unique lexicon of project management. The project management field is...
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Create a Better To-Do List
The standard to-do list might not be as innocuous as it seems. Here's how to fix yours--and actually get the important stuff done.See it on Scoop.it, via Project Management and more
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Double Loop Learning in Organizations
Organizational learning is a process of detecting and correcting error. Error is for our purposes any feature of knowledge or knowing that inhibits learning. When the process enables the organization...
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Chris Argyris - Double Loop Learning and Organizational Learning
The work of Chris Argyris (1923-) has influenced thinking about the relationship of people and organizations, organizational learning and action research. Here we examine some key aspects of his...
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Why aren’t we all working for learning organisations?
This paper by Professor John Seddon and Brendan O’Donovan is a great read. Revisiting Peter Senge’s work ‘The Fifth Discipline’ twenty years on, the authors reflect on why there are not more ‘learning...
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A Framework for Leading the People-side of Change
There is a common denominator to successfully transitioning individuals through change. This common thread is a person who plays a vital role in change, and has great influence over an individual...
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Informal Learning: Increase Adoption through Change Management
When organizations move to include an informal learning strategy in a previously “formal learning only” model, the transition heralds change on many levels.See it on Scoop.it, via Project Management...
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Benefit realization, Results and Outcomes
There is a critical connection between the people who are being expected to not only accept, but participate in, a change, and the realization of the desired outcomes of that change. To better explain...
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Project & Change Management Go Hand in Hand
Statistically, both project management and change management effort have a 70%+ failure rate, it also spurs many provocative debates on how to manage projects more smoothly, such as: How do you view...
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On Project Configuration Management
The term configuration management conjures up all sorts of questions for project managers, firstly; What is configuration management? Do I need it?nHow do I apply it?Whether we realise it or not,...
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Contracts, Projects & Complexity
Dr. Hoffman presented an interesting summary of the differences in approach between a ‘functional organization’ (good at managing standard and repetitive tasks) and a complex project-based...
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Project Management: A Malady
Contrary to popular myth, Project Management is not a job, a profession or a career path. It is an illness, a disorder characterized by delusion, specifically a desire to control people and...
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Earned Schedule Management
Earned Schedule (ES) is a method of deriving time based performance measures from Earned Value measures.Earned Schedule theory renames two traditional measures SV and SPI as SV($) and SPI($), to...
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On Earned Value/Schedule
Six interesting reads on EVM with a focus on schedule control:1) Predicting project performance: Evaluating the forecasting accuracy2) Earned Value Management: Identifying the lack of schedule...
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Being Secretive and Hiding Inconvenient Truths
Why on earth would you want to keep your stakeholder in the dark? Well, perhaps you shouldn't. To maximise success, you should proactively pursue open and honest communication, even with those who...
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The Diffusion Game: Test your change management skills
The Diffusion Simulation Game is a game developed by Indiana University in which players explore strategies that result in the adoption of innovation in a fictitious junior high. The goal is to get...
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The Speed of Trust
13 Behaviors of High-Trust that build — and allow you to maintain — trust. When you adopt these ways of behaving, it’s like making deposits into a “trust account” of another party.1. Talk Straight2....
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