February 2012

10000 hour rule of success – Does it apply to project managers?

In Outliers: The story of success, Malcolm Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success using examples from Canadian ice hockey players to Bill Gates and the Beatles. Throughout this book, he claims that the key to success in any field, is to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific […]

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Differences between Projects, Programs and Portfolio

For the ones who know, its obvious, but for those who don’t, a little help is good. Given below is my attempt to explain the basic differences between Projects, Programs and Portfolio.  Projects Programs Portfolio Definition (ISO)A project is a unique process consisting of a set of co-ordinated and controlled activities with start and finish

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Managing Projects and Herzberg’s two factor theory

The topic of interest today is what has more prominence in project management – methodology or intuition. Let us make an attempt to answer this using an analogy to Herzberg’s two factor theory.For those not familiar with Herzberg’s two factor theory, it is as follows:The theory (also known as Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory and Dual-Factor Theory)

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