Welcome To Shrinkonia. : About.

Read this introduction if you are new to this blog.

This post functions as an index to key postings on my blog. Look at it as a Table Of Contents.

Some links to external sites are included, as there are so many subjects I would like to cover, but didn’t find time to write yet.

Enjoy!

History, Now and Future of Project Management

Project Management Is Dead
The Long Tail In Software Projects
Project Management 3.0
How Male Machismo Shaped Project Management
Why Agile Popped Up on the Radar When it Did
Flight of the Creative Class
Project Management From The Medina
Bottoms Up: Leadership Style For A Better World
Project Management Code: Why Do You Do What You Do?
The Big Pond: Global Village

People As Models For Projects

Project Profiler: The True Agile PM
My Current Model For PM
Projects As Social Interactions
Complex Adaptive Systems
Projects As A Complex Adaptive System: Why Bother?
The Sims As A Project Model
Sims Project Model: Tiffanys Lust
Sims Project Model: Berts Lack Of Recognition
Reality Refuses To Follow Your Plan
Explaining PM Approaches
Four Mechanisms In PM Methods
Balancing Agility And Discipline
Why Societies And Projects Fail Or Succeed
Project Profiling With Systems Thinking
Estimating actual project progress – Download metaphor
Mental model building and forecasting the project future
Distributed Problem Solving With Agents With Scarce Resources Of Different Skill Sets
- Setting priorities
- Decision making
Adaption And Resilience Of The System
How Are Overall Goals Established?
Sensing
Creative Breakthroughs And Project Management
Lessons from bioteams
Scenario Planning And Attractors
Need For Speed – Timing Within The System
Fractal: Projects Within Organizations Within Societies
Project Managers Cannot Rely On Generalizations

Looking At The Behavior Of An Individual – Psychology

Driving On The OODA Highway
Individual Behavior – Who Am I?
Individual Behavior – How Am I Doing?
Individual Behavior – What I Want
What Is The Best Way To Motivate Team Members?

People Behaving In Groups – Sociology

Why The Customer Always Wants His Stuff Tomorrow
Information Radiators and Batman
Project Sociology – Part 1
Project Sociology – Part 2
Telecommuting: Just A Matter Of Trust?
Treehugger Project Management: Trust
Are You The Center Of Your Network?
How One Thing Leads To Another
Deviant Behavior In Project Management
Why Suits Create Suits
What Drives Project People?
Why do Developers contribute to Open Source?
Does Openness Lead To Improved Behavior?
Social OODA Super Speedway

Cultural Differences

Dealing With Cultural Differences In Projects

Interactions Between People

Along Task structure

Big Design Up-Front
Using Iterations
Critical Chain Project Management

Along Power structure

Stratification: Organizational Structures In A Pond

Along Information structure

Swimming Upstream The Information Flow
Carbon-Copy Paradox
The Death Of Gantt Charts?
Kanban

Train The Brain

3 Steps Towards Becoming An Agile Project Manager
Management And Meditation

Tools and Techniques

The TOC Thinking Processes
Productivity Tools and Techniques
Software That Tells You Bob Will Be Unhappy
Future of PM Software: WhoDoes
Future of PM Software: TenForce
Method Components Have a Reason: Scrum
Data visualization and design

Fish Pond

Complexity of Management
Our Need For Metaphors
The Fish Pond Metaphor
Filter And Drainage – Trust Running Through The Team
Indirect Control By Just Looking
Fish And OODA Loops
Lessons From The Pond For The Project Workforce