Interests, Ideas and Observations
In 2017 President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced that Kazakhstan will fully transition from Cyrillic to Latin letters by 2025. I wrote this post in response. As my good friend Maktaxali taught me, we often find that "The caravan has left but the dogs … [Continue reading]
The Australian style of underwater running is unique in that it works irrespective of the runner's buoyancy and depth of water. This article surveys several different ways of running underwater. There is a beauty to this slow motion running in a … [Continue reading]
Underwater running on sand in deep water provides high resistance aerobic exercise. (No weights or other equipment required.) Here are a couple of videos showing the … [Continue reading]
The effect of power on the manager, a brilliant paper. Very sobering. "Power and Perspectives Not Taken" by Galinsky et. al. … [Continue reading]
Recently a fantastic Youtube video Triangle of Power by user 3Blue1Brown alerted me to a beautiful notation that unifies the power, root, and logarithm notations. This notation was proposed four years earlier by user alex.jordon in this answer to a … [Continue reading]
I am convinced that Lean thinking and work patterns are crucial for IT-related change projects and the IT Service Management portfolio. When I am seeking inspiration I dive into: Lean Production Simplified, Third Edition: A Plain-Language Guide to … [Continue reading]
I have been reading zen habits for a while - but this is a gem: My most important productivity method. Here is the thesis: Pick something important to work on (a task from your most important project, perhaps). What you pick doesn't really … [Continue reading]
projectmanagement.com Knowledge Shelf just published an article of mine on "Keys for Agile Co-Evolution of the WBS and Schedule Network: The 'Schedule Network 100 Percent' Rule and the 'Add and Prune Dependencies' Algorithm" Abstract The 'schedule … [Continue reading]
See also the post on IT Service Management Reading. I have found these resources provide key building blocks for leading IT. How completely messed up processes become normal (web article) by Dan Luu. Thought provoking. How technology is creating a … [Continue reading]
Over the last few years of reading Glen Alleman's "Herding Cats" blog, I have come across the refrain "Risk Management is how adults manage projects" many times. Today, I chased down the source of this quote to Tim Lister's 2004 "How Much Risk Is … [Continue reading]
Having identified our risks we then proceed to characterise the source, the causal mechanisms, the consequences, identify controls and finally apply some sort of ranking to the risk. Sounds fairly straightforward and objective doesn't … [Continue reading]
Adopting IT Service Management disciplines is a journey for the service provider (and the customers). Here is a partial list of references which have guided me. Implementation Guidance The Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical … [Continue reading]
(Article published first in "The Critical Path", PMI Sydney, April 2015) The open source add-in for MS Project called œPMQu assists project managers to create, and maintain, quality-checked project information. Earlier in this series of articles, I … [Continue reading]
(Article published first in "The Critical Path", PMI Sydney, February 2015) As argued in a previous article[1], common definitions of œdeliverable in the WBS and schedule network may be maintained by having œStart and œFinish milestones in the … [Continue reading]
(Article published first in "The Critical Path", PMI Sydney, December 2014) Having a common definition of œdeliverable in both WBS and the schedule network assists project managers to build a common understanding of the project scope and progress … [Continue reading]