I think one of the weakest areas of project management (other than planning, which is rarely ever done very well) that I’ve encountered is the variance analysis. When things are planned and measurements are taken to determine the status of things, there’s often very little attention paid to understanding the root cause of the issue, […]
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 By David Kasprzak, on February 23rd, 2011 “I’ll let you know when I’m finished.” One of the most frustrating things I hear when dealing with project managers is that they are unable to tell if a project is 5%, 25% or 95% complete, due to the ambiguous, ever-changing nature of the task at hand. Apparently, since the work is always changing, it’s impossible […] By David Kasprzak, on February 22nd, 2011 I really despise sycophants. You see them everywhere. They’re at work, of course, currying favor with bosses and coworkers by heaping nothing but praise upon the less-than-deserving. They can be overt or subtle, but they are there. At best, people will state that these folks “never have anything bad to say” and consider them to […] By David Kasprzak, on January 26th, 2011 I’ve encountered a few offices where personality literally hung from the walls. In these spaces, people were free to decorate the walls with almost anything that came to mind. While the atmosphere was bizarre at first, after a while, you began to get the sense that people weren’t just free to decorate – they were […] By David Kasprzak, on January 19th, 2011 The more people I talk to, the more puzzled I become over the persistent ways that employers squash their employees’ creativity without even realizing they are doing it. In the name of efficiency, they invest heavily in tools (usually in large, expensive software applications) and expend tremendous resources acquiring the tools, adopting processes that are […] |
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