51 DON’T DO ZOMBIE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

One of the first things that project managers learn on training courses is that a project has a start, a middle and an end. Unfortunately, some projects outside the classroom don’t exhibit those characteristics.

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KILLING THE ZOMBIES

‘A little over a year and a half ago, I left my position as an advisor to a US Government PMO,’ says Derek Huether, an enterprise Agile coach and trainer. ‘It was a traditional PMO, filled with certified professionals doing very good work in very specific areas of expertise. We had budget specialists, schedule specialists, earned value specialists, and even contract specialists. ...

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