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SHORTS: Why I’m Fed Up With PMI: A Rant Against AI
It's crazy-pants to think that an organization would keep someone on the payroll whose entire job is to just talk to the project team members, while AI does all the project management work

Jer
Apr 306 min read
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A Reader Responds: “How I Improved a Companies Processes, Sped Up Project Timelines, and Saved Them a Fortune, and Was Fired for It.”
If you had an opportunity to get sign off on the user experience before any work starts, why wouldn't you?

Jer
Apr 2310 min read
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Your Accreditation Body Sucks: How Professional Certifications Crush Your Soul
To suggest that you have a book with all the answers, but you must pore over it to truly understand it isn't a cert program, it's a religion

Josh
Apr 168 min read
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It's Good to Be Queen
an autonomous PMO is driven by delivering the project. A project team without that autonomy is driven by making someone else happy

Jer
Apr 98 min read
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They're Babies with a Second Grade Reading Level
If you met a baby who could read at a second-grade level, you would be pretty impressed, right?

Jer
Apr 211 min read
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Your Project Team Sucks: When Grotesque Inefficiency Isn’t a Strong Enough Descriptor
why are AAA games so damn expensive to make? Is it the voice actors; the marketing; corporate expenses?

Josh
Mar 2611 min read
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When PMing Turns into Babysitting
The client wanted me to communicate with everyone what had happened. What went down was a slow-motion train wreck in 4k.

Jer
Nov 27, 202413 min read
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Why Your Project Team Sucks: Your Organization Loves to Hurt those who Help
Finding the right template takes time. Why would you put in the effort if you’re just going to get hit with directors in full riot gear?

Jer
Nov 20, 20248 min read
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The Not So Quiet Genius of Herb Wasserman
Herb recognized that clients are “snot-sucking bastards with the IQ of lumpy fucking gravy.”

Josh
Jun 10, 20247 min read
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Why Your Project Team Sucks: Your Stand-Ups are Alive, with the Sound of Jargon
Prioritization by categorization probably isn’t going anywhere.

Jer
May 20, 20246 min read
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Case Studies | The Toxicity of the Shitty
Is that fucking toddler being enabled by the CEO? Are the people being promoted incapable of saying no?

Josh
Aug 21, 202312 min read
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Gaps, Bridges, Just-The-Tip, and New Kinks: Why Only Going Half-Way Will Fuck You
My first question was why an organization would just try to recreate the shitty manual process

Josh
Aug 14, 20237 min read
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