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Inspiration, communication
A Meeting Checklist
10.24.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Before you go to an off-site meeting, make sure you do your homework and have this information:

Full adress of the location (and name of the meeting room)
Telephone and/or mobile number of your main contact
The number of the reception desk of the company you’re visiting
A full written down list of names of the people attending
If you’re [...]
Inspiration, Project Management
Don’t Compromise on the Good Part
05.09.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

There are 3 parameters everybody wants in any project.
The project has to be:

Cheap
Fast
Good

The golden rule is you can only have 2.

A fast & cheap project is rarely gonna be good.
A fast & good project isn’t cheap.
And a cheap good project won’t be fast.

So please choose whether you want it cheap, or fast.
Don’t compromise on the [...]
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4 Classic Planning Proverbs
04.01.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

“The more you plan the luckier you get.”

“The sooner you get behind schedule, the more time you have to make it up.”
“If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is going massively wrong.”
“Murphy, O’Malley, Sod and Parkinson are alive and well – and working on your project.”
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Project Management Inspiration on Twitter
03.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I like Twitter you can follow me if you want, it’s a place where I micro-blog about just about anything that’s on my mind and I announce my new posts there as well.
There’s a site called Twittgroups that parses all the tweets for group tokens, words that start with a hash (#) character. One of [...]
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Get Your PM Inspiration on the Web
01.10.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I’ve been reading a lot of blogs on project management, in the sidebar on this site you can find them under links. The ones I absolutely like best and love to read are:

The Struggling Manager
Project Smart
PM Hut

The Struggling Manager has some really cool articles about efficient communication and I bet Rob Redmont – the author [...]