Reforming Project Management The magazine for the project age OSHA Fines Concrete Contractor $870,000 by Hal 21 Jul 2008 at 12:44am Pay attention: OSHA has fined Broadway Concrete for 15 willful violations involving fall protection and unprotected rebar on a 50-story NYC building. Let's not let it happen again. © 2008 Hal, Reforming Project Management. | Permalink | No comments Add to del.icio.us. | Search blogs linking this post with Technorati Want more on these topics? [...] Think Visual by Hal 20 Jul 2008 at 6:14pm Check out Dave Gray | info, a new website giving attention to ways of meaning, thinking and working by the founder of XPLANE and chief blogger at Communication Nation. © 2008 Hal, Reforming Project Management. | Permalink | No comments Add to del.icio.us. | Search blogs linking this post with Technorati Want more on these topics? [...] Who Knows Engineers? by Hal 14 Jul 2008 at 3:07pm Curious blog We Know Engineers on A/E firms. Worth checking out. © 2008 Hal, Reforming Project Management. | Permalink | No comments Add to del.icio.us. | Search blogs linking this post with Technorati Want more on these topics? Browse other posts tagged asides. Comparing Lean and Agile by Hal 30 Jun 2008 at 2:35am Scott Reynolds writing at Tales from the SharpSide, "Lean forces you into a culture of quality. Agile is about interactions and people, and Lean is very much concerned with tools and processes." Read more about Lean vs. Agile… © 2008 Hal, Reforming Project Management. | Permalink | One comment Add to del.icio.us. | Search [...] Glen Alleman?s Models of PM Success by Hal 25 Jun 2008 at 4:01am Glen makes two big claims: If you don't have a credible plan and schedule, with a handle on the cost all the "soft" skills won't get you back on track If you don't have a definitive description of what "done" looks like, so the "soft skills" class won't make those appear Have a look at his comprehensive stand [...] Learning from The Elegant Solution by Hal 21 May 2008 at 6:45am Make innovation an everyday event Read Robert Sutton?s Blog by Hal 17 May 2008 at 2:46am Let Robert Sutton challenge your thinking Clarke Says, Multi-Tasking Is Evil, I Agree by Hal 16 May 2008 at 4:22am I won't bore you with all the references to how multi-tasking produces waste. But do understand, the company policy to have very high utilization of staff creates the requirement for multi-tasking. Full utilization is not sustainable. Until you can lower utilization, thereby creating slack, you won't be learning and innovating. You [...] Vroom and the “Capability Principle?: from sharing the project vision t... by Claude Emond 12 Mar 2008 at 3:52pm I still meet many project managers who just state that sharing a project vision (if ever there is one) is a waste of time and that the project team should just concentrate on what they are asked (told ?) to do. This always reminds me of my first project management courses, more than 30 years [...] Humility Makes Toyota Different by Hal 20 Feb 2008 at 8:52pm Toyota people think and talk differently. That coupled with humility set them apart from the rest of us.