If I asked you how far behind your project was, could you tell me in quantitative terms? Most people know the basic status of various tasks: "Well, that report was a week behind and Johnny should've finished his analysis by yesterday." But that's not good enough. Project management standards dictate that the project manager knows how far behind (or ahead) the … [Read more...]
If I told you to change a light bulb and you had two hours to do it, you would probably spend most of the two hours. You'd assume I thought you needed to go the store, or that I wanted it done a certain way, and that I've thought hard enough about it that you should take the two hours. In project management, this human phenomenon, that work tends to fit into the space … [Read more...]
