I've added two new 'cool videos' to the sidebar. How great leaders inspire action (presentation by Simon Sinek, TEDxPuget Sound, Sep 2009) A great and inspiring presentation about leadership. If you think this presentation is only about marketing and selling stuff,...
As we all know, projects are complex. That applies even more to ICT projects. The problem with complexity is that it creates unpredictability. We do not like unpredictability because both customer and supplier want to have a successful business case and need to know...
I promised an English translation of my presentation 'The Two Largest Project Killers', so here it is. It is my strong belief that if everything else fails, removing fear and complexity increases the odds for success substantially. The two largest project killers View...
IT is thought to be a rational world. A world of facts and logic, of analysis and methods. Yet in my experience IT is far from rational. We all believe we are rational people where in fact, in my opinion, we often are rationalizing our beliefs: 'a process of...
I've seen it again and again, the same business & IT anti-patterns in organisations with an internal IT department. According to Wiki, an anti-pattern 'is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem, but is ineffective and/or counterproductive in...
Jeff Sutherland brought this video about intrinsic motivation to my attention. (Thanks Jeff!). It's not only a very cool video, it's also very true. I've noticed that newbies from universities have lots of up to date knowledge, but haven't got a clue what's really...
Today my (Dutch) Whitebook on Agile Business Case management is published here. This Whitebook explains why an agile approach is useful in determining the project validity within a PRINCE2 project and also explains how this works in combination with Scrum.
My colleague Douwe Pieter van den Bos really was impressed by my last presentation and couldn't wait to share his thoughts on his blog. 😉 If you can't wait on my English translation please have a look at his post. There's lots more interesting stuff too 🙂
Yesterday I gave a presentation (in Dutch) on what I believe are the two most common reasons for projectfailure. I published the presentation on Slideshare. I'll try to post an English version the next few weeks. Twee projectkillers View more...
It was a nice sunny day today and I finished 'Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines' on the beach. The marines have to deal with life and death decisions in highly unpredictable and fast pacing situations. To cope with this they created...