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Living with the gap
Systemic Principles in Project Management: Peter Siwon explains the systemic rules and principles for managing projects, also considering the human aspect of project success. As a young project manager, I often wondered: Why do my supposedly experienced colleagues...
Realism instead of clairvoyance
Executing Complex Software Projects More Effectively with Agile Methods Come on, folks, we're going agile today, and starting tomorrow, our software projects will be purring like kittens! There are many indications that complex software projects can be executed more effectively using agile methods. This is primarily due to...
Hi, how did your project go?
If you think you've now caught me making a typo in the headline, I might fall victim to the halo effect. This effect leads you to perceive me as incompetent in general, based solely on my spelling. The halo effect is a widespread and...
Project success through emotional culture
How are you doing right now? This isn't just a casual, polite phrase, the kind that's increasingly used to start phone calls. It always makes me feel a bit uneasy because I'm never quite sure if the caller is genuinely interested in how I'm feeling.
The essence of good project management
In my training sessions and coaching, I'm frequently asked: What are the key elements of good project management? My distillation of over 25 years of project work in various roles and countless discussions with seminar participants and colleagues boils down to five letters. Anyone who wants to can...
Illusions and their impact on project work
""Nix G'wies woaß ma ned" (footnote: Bavarian for "You can't say for sure") – this is a common saying in Bavaria when it comes to making difficult decisions. Similar expressions probably exist in every language. The variety of formulations that...
How differences enrich projects
When people work together for a while, eventually what most people fear arises: conflict. The crazy thing is that they fear something as certain as the difference between two people, even if they are twins. Every person perceives their environment and their...
Needs as a source of success and failure
Whether a project gets off to a successful start depends on whether the stakeholders see a chance that their needs will be met during the project. Project success is threatened if this hope turns out to be an illusion as the project progresses. So it's worth reading on to understand the role...