I read a funny quote the other day, actually a list of Paraprosdokians that my friend Hal Korff sent. (Thanks, Hal.) It goes like this: “The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” It’s a funny line, but I got to thinking about the subject of courage, a topic […]
Watermark Learning was founded in 1992. Besides our founding, a lot was going on that year. Here are some noted firsts and other happenings in December of 1992. Text messaging as we now know it was used for the first time December 3, 1992, when Neil Papworth, a test engineer for Sema Group in the United
An unchartered project is an oxymoron to most project managers. Kind of like the unsponsored project. It just doesn’t compute. No sponsor, no project. No charter, no project. But take a look at the mountain of stuff on your desk. How many unchartered projects are in there? After all, it’s not like there’s a magic threshold
Watermark Learning was founded in 1992. Besides our founding, a lot was going on that year. Here are some noted firsts and other happenings in November of 1992. November 23, 1992, marked the day the ten millionth cell phone was activated. It was a Nokia Model 1011, and its model number referred to its launch
Virtualization. It’s no longer a question of do you work virtually, but how much of your day is spent working with others with whom you have little or no face time. Frankly, this can appeal to our less-industrious selves. How often, when we could take the opportunity for face-to-face communications, do we resort to something
The ability to influence others is a requisite skill for any project professional. It sure would be handy to be able to march around and dictate that people do this or that, but the fact is, when team members tell us “You’re not the boss of me,” more often than not, they’re right. Unfortunately, influencing
Watermark Learning was founded in 1992. Besides our founding, a lot was going on that year. Here are some noted firsts and other happenings in October of 1992. On October 12, the giant radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, began to search for alien life, sending out signals seeking other occupied planets in space. The
Controlling projects is a good thing. Controlling people is not. What does it mean to control projects, not people, and when have you crossed the threshold from controlling the project to micromanaging the people? When you start telling people how to do their jobs instead of focusing on the results they create is usually an
Watermark Learning was founded in 1992. Besides our founding, a lot was going on that year. Here are some noted firsts and other happenings in September of 1992. Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to travel into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. It is also the first flight
When I ask project managers what a baseline is and why it’s important, they tell me that it is an approved starting point against which project performance is measured. They are right, of course. But when I ask them if they use baselines, as often as not, I find that baselining is a fundamental project
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