There are plenty of lists and rules and checklists and such out there for successful project management. Today, here’s my list. Tomorrow my list might be different. That doesn’t invalidate this list (can one even call 2 things a list?), but means tomorrow something else might suddenly matter more in my consciousness. Welcome to project management. [...] [...]

One of the challenges in Cottage PM, I believe, is the problem of scale. Most PM literature deals with huge projects that require lots of PM processes and tools to scope them, manage them, and control them correctly. But what if you just want to learn some basics? How do you filter through the huge pile [...] [...]

Found this today and couldn’t resist reposting. I think I’ve written on project status report updates before. You can totally over do them. Really. Your status update should inform, yes, but it can — should? — also motivate. Or de-motivate. You may need to create multiple status updates for different audiences: really high-level for the sponsor and stakeholders; more detailed [...] [...]

Spotted this little gem on the ‘net today: Don’t you love that! OK, on one location where I saw it, the comments were all about where the various technologies really belonged on the graph. *sigh* I don’t know what many of those technologies are. But specific technologies aside, it’s a good glimpse into one of the challenges of project managers [...] [...]

One of my avocations is directing choirs. I’m currently preparing an Easter-time performance of Rutter’s Requiem with a small choir of about 20. (Not nearly enough voices, but that’s not relevant to this writing.) My choirs are generally smaller than I’d like. Mostly because I won’t beg grown-up people to sing. As a PM, you’d think [...] [...]