Interview on effective leadership and creating a Team Norming workshop
I am proud and happy to announce that an interview I gave last month in Denver for the Project Leadership Podcast (http://www.projectleadershippodcast.com/ -> go to Episode 2) has just gone live. In this featured Interview I talk about leadership and creating a “Team norming” workshop….
Agile Project Management: The Natural Way
In a recent coment I wrote, „AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT has been a topic at the [PMI] conference. Indeed, I believe there were 2-3 presentations on this very topic. For example, Michele Sliger, co-author of the newly published and excellent book „The Software Project Manager’s Bridge…
PMI Global Congress – Reflections, Part I
Wow, what a conference! I cannot remember any conference or professional meeting I ever attended where there was such a wealth of knowledge, interesting people, inspiring ideas. It will take a time to digest all the information. All I can say is that I highly…
Effective Leadership = 3+1
Yesterday I met Robert Urwiler, CIO of Vail Resorts. We also talked about my definition of effective leadership. Robert pointed out that he would add a fourth dimension: DELIVERY. This is true and has been a missing piece. Thank you, Robert, for pointing this out!…
Leadership in a complex world
Today I have (re-)learned a lesson of complexity theory with respect to vision, the critical success factor of any effective leader according to my belief and experiences: (1) „A vision without a system is as bad as a system without a vision.“ (2) „Simple rules…
Denver in the making
Just a few more days till the PMI Global Congress 2008 in Denver. Final preparations are ongoing. By now all white papers and presentations at the Congress have been made available by PMI to all Congress attendants. This facilitates preparation a great deal. Have a…
Sessions in Denver
At present I plan to attend and participate in the following sessions in Denver: Date Time Description 10/19/2008 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Standards Program Working Session 10/20/2008 8.15 – 9.30 ADV10 • Project Management Center of Excellence: The Cornerstone of Business Transformation 10/20/2008 10:00…
Value of project management
PMI has recently concluded a research project on measuring the actual value of project management and how to improve the value. Visit http://www.pmi.org/value for details. It is worth the visit.