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Eye on the Workforce
- by Joe Wynne
From big workforce issues to interpersonal interactions, we'll look for the latest and most effective solutions.

Project Management 2.0
- by Dave Garrett
New technologies, concepts, and Web 2.0 tools are popping up everywhere. How can you use them to help your project team collaborate, communicate - or just give your project an extra boost? [Contact Dave]

Just My Thoughts
- by Michael Wood
It's time to rethink the way we approach IT. For too long IT has been allowed to exist dysfunctionally within the enterprise on many levels. From CIO relationships to fundemental understanding on how to plan, build and support the needs of the business IT has been allowed to be more art than science.... What follows are my thoughts on a variety of topics within the IT space.

GigaBizByte
- by Sunil Sharma
Ruminations about business of IT, new concepts, convergence of IT, PM and entrepreneurship and many other similar or dissimilar idiosyncratic ideas

SOUNDING OFF
- by bob weinstein
You can learn a lot by observing and asking questions. But to shake things up, you have to get real ticked off about the important things that need fixing. The dangerous alternative is complacency.

Project Management For Real
- by Mark Mullaly
Since 2001, the column "Project Management in Practice" has been read by thousands of visitors to gantthead.com. Mark Mullaly has offered his insights, perspectives and observations about what really happens in organizations on a (mostly) monthly basis. The column confronts head-on the challenges that project managers confront on a regular basis, and strives to make sense of what happens when projects and organizations collide.
This blog takes a closer look at what happens when we try to manage projects “for real”. What really works, and what really doesn’t.



recent posts

Four Early Warning Signs of a Project in Trouble   from   Strategic Project Management
Underground mining is a dangerous occupation. What's more, before the advent of sophisticated breathing apparatus, methane and carbon monoxide made it even more dangerous for the men working in the mi ...
Posted By: Ty Kiisel on March 15, 2010 11:59 AM

Project Potion Special Interview with Thushara Wijewardena   from   Drunken PM
Working With an Agile Offshore Team ...
Posted By: Dave Prior on February 27, 2010 11:28 AM

Project Potion #6 - Dave Goes to Macworld   from   Drunken PM
I'm a little late posting the link, but where else are you going to find a review of Macworld just for PMs? In this episode, the ProjectShrink intervews the drunkenpm about his visit to Macworld ...
Posted By: Dave Prior on February 27, 2010 11:26 AM

The Mike Sutton Sessions - Part 3 - ScrumFest   from   Drunken PM
Part 3 of the drunkenpm interview with Mike Sutton, CEO of Wizewerx and founder of ScrumFest. In this part of the interview, Mike talks about his work putting on ScrumFest in the UK and his plans t ...
Posted By: Dave Prior on February 25, 2010 07:02 AM

Art of War - Chapter 1 Part 5 - The Tao of Paradox   from   Drunken PM
The next section of Chapter 1 starts by introducing one of the core strategies of Sun Tzu's teaching. In "The Art of Strategy" by R.L. Wing, the section is translated as: Heed me by Calculating ...
Posted By: Dave Prior on February 23, 2010 09:19 PM


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