Sep23
For years, the PMI has teased me with mentions of a Schedule Management Plan in the PMBOK. It obviously existed, and even was listed as an input to one of the Time Management processes, but it never got called out as its own separate artifact with its own planning process. Obviously, this implied some sort of bias against the scheduler caste. Didn’t Risk, HR, Communications, Quality and Proc...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2009 08:10.
Sep17
When I was doing PMP training in Central Ohio, I used to have a lot of students from the Honda plant in Marysville, and from a lot of the Honda suppliers. I don’t know how true this is, but several of them told me the following story, which is a great illustrative anecdote:
At Honda, it’s the line workers that know the best about how to improve processes on the assembly line. Each worker i...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 17 Sep 2009 11:18.
Aug24
Vaughan Merlyn has a great post on his IT Organization Circa 2017 blog on how hard a consulting company should push its clients in adopting organizational change. On the converse side, it also discusses what a client should expect from a consulting company that implements tools supporting organizational change.
http://vaughanmerlyn.com/2009/08/24/how-hard-should-management-consultants-push...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 24 Aug 2009 12:50.