Project Lifestyle

Unstuck By OODA

By andrew.sparks on December 9, 2008 4:54 PM

[Update 10-Dec-2008 –  review comment from Chet Richards added to the text] An article in the February 2008 Harvard Business Review (The Experience Trap by Kishore Sengupta, Tarek K. Abdel-Hamid, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove) led me on a...

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Support Your (Professional) Community

By andrew.sparks on October 13, 2008 3:33 PM

I would like to draw attention to an external professional community for project and program managers working in the IT industry. Go and check out Gantthead. Subscribing is free, including a newsletter straight to your inbox. One professional hazard that...

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Scorecarding & Tollgating: Is It Safe?

By andrew.sparks on September 29, 2008 3:09 PM

Is it safe? At many points in a project you (as a professional Project Manager), or the customer, will be asking if it is safe to move to the next phase of the project phase (or to go live). How...

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Why Lifestyle?

By andrew.sparks on September 26, 2008 12:29 PM

I would also like to comment on why I have chosen to title my blog "Project Lifestyle". Traditional project management techniques, methods and models are frequently based on an underlying assumption that projects are infrequent, non-routine activities to achieve specific...

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Scope, Objectives, Approach

By andrew.sparks on September 25, 2008 11:24 PM

Three little words that mean so much. At least to Project Managers. So as starting shot I'll outline the basic scope, objectives and approach of my blog. I intend to focus on discussing subjects in the field of Project Management,...

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