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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 100,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see […]
Dirty Consultant Tricks – Hiding the Crystal Ball
October 3, 2012 by Dave Kohrell
Nearly four years ago we began the TAPUniversity Blog. It’s been based on a mix of our training and consulting delivery. The first topic was a top 10 things to do for contractors or consultants (or not do). After a round of consulting assignments, in pharmaceutical and insurance, with other consultants alongside me, I observed […]
Meaningful Work – Busy Work
September 27, 2012 by Dave Kohrell
Meaningful Work versus Busy Work was the central theme of a presentation and discussion I shared with the PMI Heartland Professional Development Day on September 17, 2012. The title was “Undercover Agile”. The premise was sorting through what’s meaningful and busy work in daily project management practice. Once sorted, high performance organizations and project managers focus […]
Business Analysis Technique #26 – Scenarios and Use Cases
March 2, 2011 by Dave Kohrell
Several years ago I shared a series of articles in the Rational Edge for IBM that showcased real life applications of use cases and incremental development. Two of those articles focused on replacing a legacy unemployment insurance system. The entire article provides a much more thorough introduction from that example – so take a quick […]
Business Analysis Technique #3 – Brainstorming
March 1, 2011 by Dave Kohrell
The whiteboard. The dry eraser. The multi-color pens. The overbearing meeting participant. Those four things often come together when thinking of brainstorming. It’s a technique among multiple management nexus disciplines and at the heart of agile, business analysis and project management. It can produce great results from a team. The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge […]
The importance of framing a problem correctly
January 1, 2011 by Adrian Reed (UKAdrianReed)
Asking the right questions and framing problems carefully is an important part of project definition and organizational change. Often organizations frame problems in a way which constricts or constrains potential solutions, and this can lead to a poor outcome or the wrong tactics being employed. Spending time consciously defining a problem can pay dividends in […]
Transparency–The First Aspirational Fairness Standard in the PMI Code of Ethics
February 25, 2010 by tapuniversity
Transparency—the light shines through so that everything is revealed and nothing is hidden. The first aspirational Fairness standard from the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is “4.2.1 We demonstrate transparency in our decision-making process.” In our TAPUniversity Values, which is prominently displayed at our headquarters, our first value is that […]
The First Aspirational Honesty Standard in the PMI Code of Ethics
February 10, 2010 by tapuniversity
Honesty is one of the four major values of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. The honesty standards are divided into aspirational and mandatory standards, and there are five aspirational honesty standards. The first standard is “5.2.1 We earnestly seek to understand the truth.” At first blush, this seems like […]
The Influence of Professional Ethics Codes
December 21, 2009 by tapuniversity
Project Managers, does the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct matter? Individuals who are certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI) have all agreed to abide by this code. What influence does the code actually have? I have often thought of professional codes as primarily a means for a profession to rid itself of […]
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