Project Managers face dilemmas every day; it comes with the job. Project management has developed as a discipline to help managers deal with their dilemmas. The basic one is how to reconcile the sponsor’s demands for efficiency with the end-users’ quality needs. This has always been so, probably ever since the pyramids were built. However, [...]
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Projects as Cultural Experiences: interPM 2009 video
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Projects have their own rhythm. The classical instruments of project management only take you so far. Last year, the interPM conference focused on the role that culture plays in shaping a project’s rhythm. The GPM (German Project Management Association) has just released a video of the conference, Projekte als Kulturerlebnis (Projects as Cultural Experiences). [...]
Leadership Lessons from a Presidential Campaign Manager
David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign, addressed the German Project Management Forum in Berlin yesterday via satellite. I was busy translating for colleagues who couldn’t keep up with his (for non-native speakers) slightly too fast delivery. I’d no time to take notes, so this is just a a rough summary. The speech [...]
InterPM 2009 – Still time to register!
The InterPM conference on the future of project management will be held on 19-20 June 2009 in Glashütten, near Frankfurt, with the them “Projects as a Cultural Experience”. The event is a nice mix of key note addresses, some talks and workshops and a large portion of Open Space where participants get to explore whatever [...]
How I’m coming to love blogging
To be honest, the only reason I’m writing this entry is that Sandy McMullen, who I’m getting to know through twitter, tagged me in her article on how she loves blogging about personal development, written as part of Typepad’s “I love Blogging” initiative for Valentine’s Day. (Blog entries, unlike roses, are not perishable, so [...]
InterPM 2009
The InterPM conference on the future of project management will be held on 19-20 June 2009 in Glashütten, near Frankfurt, with the them “Projects as a Cultural Experience”. The event is a nice mix of key note addresses, some talks and workshops and a large portion of Open Space where participants get to explore whatever [...]
InterPM 2008
The dust has settled on this year’s InterPM conference on Innovation through Project Management, where Klaus Wagenhals and I (representing metisLeadership) held the Open Space at the conference.
We also facilitated an interdisciplinary warm-up workshop in which participants experienced the different perspectives on innovation that different professions hold. Of 80 participants, only four had a sociology [...]
Business Forum
I attended the 3rd Business Forum for small and medium-sized enterprises on Thursday in Baden-Baden. (Nice to have a short trip for a change!) I applaud the organisers for developing this conference in what has been a pretty dull economic climate in Germany over the past few years. The conference ran under the motto [...]
Requirements for leadership
At the recent PM Forum in Hannover, Germany, I attended a presentation on how to recognise a successful project manager. The presenter finished by recommending that whoever didn’t meet the profile identified by his research should think seriously about geting another job. Instead, I thought about my own list of characteristics that a successful [...]
