So I want to introduce you today to a groovy new book by Harvard Professor Teresa Amabile and her equally accomplished husband, Steven Kramer. It’s called The Progress Principle, and I think it contains a lot of important lessons for project managers.
The primary [...]
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A reader recently wrote in asking me for just the risk analysis portion of my “Big Grandaddy of Excel Project Tracking“. She also asked if there was an easy way to analyze the data included in the risk register. So I thought to myself, “hey, why not”. So, once again, [...]
Read more and share your opinion →Okay so I’m going to go in a weird direction today. I just left comments over at Derek Huether’s and Ty Kiisel’s blogs, about the need for consistency and repetition in project environments. While writing my comments, I remembered back to university when I studied the Attic Greek [...]
Read more and share your opinion →I received a mail the other day from a reader who had a project “fail” and was concerned how that affected his reputation. I thought it was a great question, so I’m going to share my thoughts here.
First of all, I believe “failed” is a very subjective term. If you’re going to talk about [...]
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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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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