Monday, August 11, 2003

Project Uncertainty Principle. Project Uncertainty Principle -- ...from you know where (08/06/03). [Frank Patrick's Focused Performance Blog] 6:05:39 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Top Ten Sources of Project Failure -- The Executive Summary. Top Ten Sources of Project Failure -- The Executive Summary -- A few weeks ago, the Channeling Cupertino blog linked to my old Top Ten List about sources of project failure, and said... "Given certain . . . constraints in my communications with my immediate superiors at work, I need to find some way to bring this little bit of wisdom to their attention. "On the other hand, the probable response would be "It's got too many words."" Far be it for me to prevent my message from being shared due to my verbosity. Hence...the "fewer words" version... 1. Trying to put 10 pounds of projects through a 5 pound pipeline. 2. Expecting perfection. 3. Mistaking 1+1 for 2. 4. Forgetting something. 5. Micro-managing trees while the forest burns. 6. Creating a Parkinson's Law environment. 7. Not using "good enough" resources. 8. Over-using great resources. 9. Working the wrong project. 10. Multi-tasking, multi-tasking, multi-tasking, multi-tasking, and multi-tasking. (Use as few as necessary to be read.) If that's still "too many words," just give your attention deficit management numbers 1., 3., 6., 9., and 10., or any other combination that sounds familiar to you. And be assured that Critical Chain-based project management can help deal with all of them. [Frank Patrick's Focused Performance Blog] 6:04:32 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Mediacrit writ Nasty.. Media Whores Online. Media criticism with a vigorous, active voice. Left of center. [a klog apart] 5:51:31 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Where the Mind is Without Fear. Poetry for a Monday morn arriving on a sea of public anxiety, despair, frustration and rejection. Where the Mind is Without Fear Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection: Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-- Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.  — Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. [a klog apart] 5:34:27 PM  comment []  Trackback []     And Don't Miss the George W. Bush AWOL Inaction Figure. You can't make up stuff this ridiculous -- an "action figure" celebrating George W. Bush's recent public-relations ride to an... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 6:18:16 AM  comment []  Trackback []

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