Max Wideman has a Special Affiliation Agreement with Tom Mochal, President of TenStep, Inc. Max is particularly impressed with Tom's work on developing a practical project management methodology. The methodology is simple, scalable and straightforward - something that is sorely needed in the PM domain.

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The Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms version 4.2 is available for sale. See What's New in Version 4.2.

A Management Framework for Project, Program and Portfolio Integration? (ISBN 1-4120-2786-1, 260 pp, 2004) expands on my original well-known book A FRAMEWORK for Project and Program Management INTEGRATION published by the Project Management Institute in 1991. Find out more HERE and order your copy HERE.

Project management tip of the month

The muddling through principle: When all else fails, try reading the manual.

New information added monthly

July 2008 - How many buttons do you have on your TV remote and how many of them do you understand? See how this relates to your current project in Musings: The Curse of Knowledge and Making Decisions. In our Guests paper, Lev Virine returns with Michael Trumper to provide you with a quiz to test your intuition - from their latest book: Testing Your Judgment in Making Decisions. In Papers David Pells, Managing Editor of PM World Today interviews Max on a number of topics. In this Part 1: Probing Max's Background David asks about Project Management, Construction Management, Heavy Construction and Max's first contact with the term "Project Manager".

June 2008 - In Musings, we go back to basics by quoting one of Tom Mochal's articles, a simple, lucid and compelling case for The Value of Project Management. Our Paper, this month, reviews Jason Westland's book: The Project Management Life Cycle — a valuable reference complete with templates for the types of projects discussed. Our Guest, Randy Englund, provides us with A Primer for Embracing Project-Based Work, by first asking "What is not a Project?", then discussing evolving definitions of project success and how that may be achieved. Finally, Randy likens the process to the gardener growing and nurturing a fruit tree.

May 2008 - This month we have two Guest articles: Authors of the Dynamic Baseline Model add the following to their ground-breaking research: DBM & Personality Types: A Supplementary Explanation; and Don Wessels provides valuable advice on Project Portfolio Management: Aligning Projects with Corporate Strategies and Values. In Papers, the editor of PMHub.net Interviews Max Wideman - The Person with probing personal questions. In Musings, Max answers a visitor's question: "How do you identify a Client’s Sponsor, whether internal or external, when one is not identified, is reluctant to come forward, or is unwilling to take responsibility?"

Helpful information for people in a hurry

It is not for me to tell you how to run your project — that's your decision. Nor am I trying to teach you about project management — there are plenty of excellent books and courses to do that. You see, any fool can make things complicated, my goal is to keep it simple! Go to the site map to see all site content listed by subject area.

The site map lists extensive information on project management. To find what you are looking for, use the Search My Site link on the left of each page to reach the Google search panel.


Checklists aka "Issacons©"

Issacons stands for Issues and Considerations and are sets of slides providing summary information responding to a specific question associated with a particular project management topic.

Designed to save hours of searching when all you want is a simple checklist, they provide the reader with succinct information. Issacons are more detailed than a plain bulleted list.

To view slides as text, click the "A" button on the right side of the slides.

 

Project Management Glossary

A free-on-web comparative glossary (version 3.1) designed to show how many common terms mean different things to different people, thereby leaving you free to create your own distinct version for your particular project.

 

Guest Articles

Points of view from other contributors.

Max's Papers and Books

Papers and Book Reviews: Thought provoking and valuable insights into project management. Books I have written.

Hence, more successful projects and more of them that are successful.

 

Max's Musings

My thoughts on various incidental project management topics.

 

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