The Tailoring Rule

“Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.”                                                                                                 – Frank Tyger When people choose to complain about project management, one frequent refrain is the burden and overhead of all that process.  (I believe this is often a red herring, used by detractors …

Project Governance – Maturity Level V

“There is a universality to comedy.”                                       – Simon Pegg We have been building to this post for a while now.  This is the final installment of my series on project governance – or, more accurately, governance in the project context.  In the first post I introduced my arbitrary, tongue-in-cheek …

PM Journal – Risk in Complex Projects

Thamhain, Hans.  “Managing Risks in Complex Projects,” Project ManagementJournal, April 2013 (Vol 44 #2), pp 20-35. From discussions and networking with my peers and colleagues, I don’t think there are very many that read PM Journal.  I won’t suggest that’s a mistake because the applicability of the content varies – …