Project Management Notebook - by Project Doctor

Project Management Notebook - by Project Doctor

Project managers will get field-tested expertise here. Looking for strong opinions and sharp observations, related to project management issues that we have all faced at one time or another? Here it is, all presented in light-hearted yet serious manner - business casual indeed. I'm Project Doctor, veteran project manager and passionate to share what I've learned. Find me on projectdoctor.online - feedback is appreciated, as well as sharing to your network!

Episodes

S2E19 - Ethics and self-knowledge

March 8, 2023 • 7 min
an ancient greek myth has lessons for us about ethics - that knowing your limitations will help you prevent having negative impact on stakeholders, third parties, team, end users. how an old story has implications for project managers today, especially in the competency of "self-knowledge".
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S2E18 - how to measure Team Collaboration

November 22, 2022 • 5 min
some notes on how to measure team collaboration, not indirectly (indicators) but directly (measurement) - and a caveat as measuring this would at the same time be an intervention in the team
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S2E17 - Project Failure causes

October 4, 2022 • 12 min
a systems view on multiple factors causing project failure, and how to use the Project Canvas to get a better understanding of sources for failure
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S2E16 - Ethics & sensitivity to context

September 1, 2022 • 7 min
an ancient greek myth has lessons for us about ethics - that knowing more about the context can change the meaning of our actions. how an old story has implications for project managers today, especially in the competency of "self-knowledge".
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S2E15 - Assumptions and Control

July 30, 2022 • 5 min
how models always leave out stuff that we assume to remain the same (ceteris paribus). the value of control is central to project management but has a flipside. on the importance of being alert to changing circumstances.
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S2E14 - Estimations and Bias

July 16, 2022 • 4 min
on effort estimations and the effects of anchoring bias. how to avoid this bias by using the planning poker approach.
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S2E13 - PM as a profession, page 5/5

July 9, 2022 • 10 min
looking at three drivers for the professionalization of project management: pressure from society; cooperation and alignment between education and associations; development of theory by academia.
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S2E12 - PM as a profession, page 4/5

July 2, 2022 • 7 min
what is the status of the profession on each of the criteria for what is a 'real' profession: education, testing, accreditation, supervision, code of ethics, and complaints handling.
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S2E11 - PM as a profession, page 3/5

June 25, 2022 • 6 min
which professional organisations are there? what are the major certification schemes? how many people have certification?
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S2E10 - PM as a profession, page 2/5

June 18, 2022 • 5 min
what are the characteristics of a profession? what institutions and organizations are necessary to succesfully create a profession in a society?
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S2E9 - PM as a profession, page 1/5

June 10, 2022 • 7 min
projects are an increasingly important vehicle for achieving stuff; are statistics on project success / failure an indication of a problem in our profession?
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S2E8 - Leary's rose

May 28, 2022 • 6 min
on Leary's rose - as a descriptive model and an action-shaping model
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S2E7 - on Domain Knowledge

April 20, 2022 • 4 min
can project managers be effective without technical expertise of the field that their project is in? on domain knowledge and epistemics, and the knowledge processes in projects.
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S2E6 - hidden Beliefs behind Estimations

April 1, 2022 • 4 min
behind all (cost) estimations there are assumptions and hidden beliefs, which should be uncovered - we should have a view on the extent of un-knowledge behind all estimations
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S2E5 - on Decision making and Framing

March 15, 2022 • 5 min
how we are not fully 'rational agents' in decision making, and how framing is inevitably always taking place.
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S2E4 - Power

February 25, 2022 • 9 min
where does the power come from that project managers have in defining temporary organizations and plannings; looking at a definition of power as language-action power
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S2E3 - Risks

January 29, 2022 • 5 min
how to avoid the 'availabiltiy bias' in risk assessment, and using the Project Card Game for an innovative approach to project risk based on the Canvas
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S2E2 - Change Metaphors

January 23, 2022 • 5 min
why the "unfreeze - move - refreeze" model doesn't work, and how the "articulate - reconfigure - cross-appropriate" approach does a better job based on sense-making
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S2E1 - the Cone of Uncertainty

January 18, 2022 • 7 min
the 'cone of uncertainty' shows that at the start of any project you inevitably don't have all the information you need, and then the "what you see is all there is" bias impacts important decisions that happen in the early project stages
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