About a year ago, I wrote an article called “Is the PMP Losing Its Value“. To date, that article remains the most commented-on piece on this blog.
This year, I wanted to revisit that article, for a couple reasons. Firstly, I know this subject rankles Derek Huether and [...]
Read more and share your opinion →So I’ve been looking rather unsuccessfully for work lately and one of the things that’s been really gnawing at me is the human resource black hole. We all know how it is…you contact an employer about a job and then never hear back. Recruiters are incredibly busy people so despite being out of work, we [...]
Read more and share your opinion →In 2000, a the height of the dot com craze, I was contracted to build an e-commerce site. I had three months basically to build a portal for online trading of bonds, money market and foreign exchange products, translate it into six different Asian languages, and get it [...]
Read more and share your opinion →I’m going to have another rant today. Over the last few years, I’ve been surrounded by genuinely talented freelancers who perform phenomenal work. As is often the case, professionals and small businesses subcontract these freelancers to perform work for their clients. Subcontracting freelancers [...]
Read more and share your opinion →In a much earlier post, I mentioned I’d had the unique opportunity to work on outsourcing projects both from the buy side, and from the sell side. Today I want to talk a bit about that, and explain why I feel outsourcing is just an awful idea, and hurts [...]
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One of my favourite project management bloggers, Derek Huether, wrote a piece last week about dealing with people who are consistently late for meetings. This is one of my personal major peeves and it has the same effect on me [...]
Read more and share your opinion →Dear Mr. Harper:
I’m not your number one fan. Okay, I’m not really a fan at all. Okay, let’s dispense with the niceties…I think you’re an ass.
However, I must acknowledge that your office is faced with difficult decisions. Decisions like, where to hold the G20 summit, for example.
One possibility would be to select [...]
Read more and share your opinion →…That company was not atypical of any other company I’ve worked for. It was no more or less dysfunctional than other environments I’ve seen. And in our contemporary environments we pump our people full of inspirational propaganda about taking initiative and empowering themselves at the same time we yank the carpets out from under them. We tell them that a lousy 4th quarter meant a tiny bonus pool in the same presentation we tell our shareholders we reported record profits. We tell them we’d reward them if they’d take more ownership of their work, and then throw the act of reviewing to the peers they compete with…
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I'm Geoff Crane. After 22 years in the trenches of a lot of tough projects, I decided to change direction a little bit and focus on sparking ideas in the vibrant field of project management.
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