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Posted by Verarius | 01.09.2023
In today’s article, we will talk about the derivation of risks and issues log and the installment of a routine. As we are still in the vacation season, some vacation and especially sailing metaphors managed to find their way into the text. With that, I wish you fair winds and following seas while exploring the risk landscape of your next project!...
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Posted by Verarius | 18.08.2023
Ahoy there! It’s summertime, so why don’t we take a breather for a moment and talk about having fun? An old joke goes that no matter what assembly instructions are saying, a military engineer will make a tank out of it – by virtue of the same logic, I see a lot a project manager can learn from having fun, especially if there is some system to the fun-madness! ...
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Posted by Verarius | 04.08.2023
In today’s article, Monty Python together with Hermann Hesse will help us define what we realistically want to achieve with risk management tools for our project and why the planning phase of a project is nothing but sheer magic – if you look at it close enough....
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Posted by Verarius | 21.07.2023
In our today’s entry, we will explore quite a few dimensions and universes – we shall visit the world of Douglas Adams and the oh-so-comfy couch of the iconic TV series Friends, we shall pay tribute to Søren Kierkegaard and to Nassim Taleb, and we shall see what an MS Excel table has in common with cinematic experiments in the middle of the 20th century. ...
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Posted by Verarius | 07.07.2023
Error cost escalation, one of the most incredible and mesmerizing phenomena of project management! While some keep staring at the escalation like a rabbit at a snake, some keep deriving properties of this hypnotizing phenomenon… Let us join the second group and so tame the monster! ...
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Posted by Verarius | 23.06.2023
Managerial Zoo: In this section, we will be looking at all sorts of amazing animals that populate the reality of a project and change manager. Don’t be surprised if you have never heard of some of them before – indeed, most of them have never walked the Earth. This is why giving them a place to live is so crucial. And where else when not in this cozy blog? So, without further ado – please meet the Giraphant!...
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