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Things fall apart
Another sleepless night. It’s 4:25 AM and you’re wide-awake. Check that. You’re awake, sort of, after another sleepless night. Yes, another sleepless night, because you had two last week, and another...
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Personal and professional lives fail before the project does
Well, I’ll confess. Not only has failure happened to a friend, but I’ve seen it, I’ve heard it, and I’ve lived it. Personal, professional, and project problems grow and cascade into a torrent of...
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Bad Choices Underpin Most Problem Projects
In my last post I asserted that failed projects often have at their roots “neglect or damage in [the leaders'] personal and professional lives”, not ignorance of project management principles. Rather...
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Before, During, and After Trouble
Like projects themselves, recovery from project challenges follows a definite lifecycle. Todd Williams (@BackFromRed), in his Rescue the Problem Project, identifies one prerequisite and four steps in...
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3P/T — Personal, Professional, and Project Recovery over Time
This perspective on business recovery means we must respect the relationship among personal, professional, and project behaviors. The three dimensions of recovery behavior take place over time and are...
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Can personal shortcomings undermine recovery? (Mini Case Part 1)
I concede that projects can recover — at least for a time — without sustainable personal and professional behaviors in place. Heroic measures to catch up on accumulated technical debt, more testers to...
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How personal shortcomings undermine recovery (Mini Case Part 2)
Unfortunately, our quality control processes didn’t fare so well. We did get sufficient testing resources for the first rollout, but a couple of process owners only delivered under protest. For you...
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Why personal behaviors impact testing
My last post used testing to illustrate the consequences of questionable personal behavior on a business situation. Quality is susceptible to personal and professional gaps that interact to amplify...
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