Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:14:54 GMT http://www.gantthead.com/blog/The-Project-Shrink/ Bas de Baar is a Project Shrink. Well actually, he's the Project Shrink. Projects are about people, and he helps you deal with that. What is your relationship with your mother like? And what kind of PM tree would you be? http://www.gantthead.com/blog/The-Project-Shrink/5028/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:51:24 GMT Time flies. I mean really. Its now February. And all the stuff you thought you postponed until later (Ah well. Will do that in February.) is filling your daily todo list. Knock knock. Whos There? This is February, stupid! Fourteen years ago I stopped wearing a watch. One day I noti... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/The-Project-Shrink/5011/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:45:12 GMT There was a loud, obnoxious man screaming at the gates of Shrinkonia. He demanded something. And now! He stood there every day. Demanding. Yelling. Every day with a Wish dressed up as a Demand. Old Nox, short for obnoxious of course, was well known throughout the tiny mobile state of Shrinko... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/The-Project-Shrink/4972/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:28:41 GMT Life has very cool moments. When you are presenting at a seminar you might wear a head set. You know, a microphone strapped to your head. And of course, at such moments, you feel like Britney. As in Spears. Wearing a headset entitles you to do a Britney. Finger in one ear, sing loud and out ... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/The-Project-Shrink/4955/ Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:40:04 GMT In 1949 thirteen firefighters died at the Helena National Forest, Montana. A forrest fire got completely out of hand, and surprised the team that was dropped by parachute to control the fire. The Mann Gulch fire is an incident described in detail in Norman Macleans book Young Men and Fire. I... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/The-Project-Shrink/4383/ Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:57:47 GMT I learned Project Management from Mr. Miyagi from the movie The Karate Kid. Actually, my Miyagi was French, knew nothing about karate and everything about wine. But they both talked in weird English sentences. Myagi had Wax on. Wax off. My mentors favorite being: Gantt says. I think he reall... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/The-Project-Shrink/4285/ Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:36:49 GMT I had 30.000 subscribers to my blog and deleted them all. This was not an accident. I didnt loose my mind. Well. Perhaps. But not that I was aware off. But then, can you be aware of loosing your own mind? Anyway. I wanted to see what would happen. When I wanted to see how video cha... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/The-Project-Shrink/4266/ Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:36:27 GMT I let you in on a little secret: when I talk about storytelling in projects, I get a little help from movies. The Matrix, Star Wars, The Big Lebowski, Juno. What they have in common is that they all follow a universal structure called The Heros Journey. Or monomyth. Professor Joseph Campbell... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/The-Project-Shrink/4235/ Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:48:35 GMT Your project is part of a larger context. Longer journeys. Larger stories. And these stories shape your project more than you know. Its like Star Wars. You can watch just episode IV. And enjoy it. But it starts really making sense when you watch the entire series. Your project is an episode i... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/The-Project-Shrink/4117/ Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:39:14 GMT You just filled in your Excel sheet and now nobody cares. You just told your mission statement and now nobody remembers. Thats strange. Because you love it! Of course you do. And you can be proud. You made an awesome Excel sheet. One heck of a mission statement. But. Not everyone l... http://www.gantthead.com/blog/The-Project-Shrink/4100/ Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:50:49 GMT There were a few heros that couldnt stand it anymore. They had a hard time fighting The Mechanistic Man. Fighting those who thought of humans as resources. Fighting those who wrote large documents. They were tired of that. They couldnt stand it anymore. But their group was small. Determined....