Comments on Better Projects: What if our whole world view of project management...

Thanks for your post Will. I put my response up a...

2011-05-20T00:43:26.417+10:00

Thanks for your post Will. I put my response up as a new post.

A dose of this blog, plus a couple of others, alon...

2011-05-20T00:07:15.543+10:00

A dose of this blog, plus a couple of others, along with my early morning coffee, gets my day off to a thoughtful start. Truly. I might not contribute much, but I do try to implement some of what I read. Thanks.

I first wrote on here in response to your post on self-sustaining behaviours in project management, and these ideas still occupy my thoughts on my project management practices. John whitty has a new talk on youtube which I think is great. http://www.youtube.com/user/DrJonathanWhitty I’d be interested to hear your comments on it, such as how can we sort the really useful but not necessarily easy ideas from the ideas that are just fashionable and easy to pass on.

Will (bill.fellowes@hotmail.com)

Here’s another paper from Whitty. http://www.usq...

2009-04-22T13:03:00.000+10:00

Here’s another paper from Whitty.
http://www.usq.edu.au/users/whitty/Project%20management%20artefacts%20and%20the%20affective%20emotions%20they%20evoke%20-%20final%20version.pdf

As project managers we appear to be all marching (or trying to march) in the same way. To me this paper gives some insights as to why.
Wil

Yes. It is great stuff.

2008-04-08T21:30:00.000+10:00

Yes. It is great stuff.

I read this paper a couple of years ago and it sen...

2008-04-01T00:50:00.000+11:00

I read this paper a couple of years ago and it sent me into a bit of a spin. I spent a lot of time thinking about how I manage projects. I was at a talk the author gave here in London last year, and what he says in this paper is frankly only part of the story. His other papers are on his website.

I think we (project managers) need to listen to voices like this. Sadly, i think only those with courage will listen, because some of what he and others have to say, will make you question your very place in the profession, the organisation, and your own sense of what you do and what you think you are.

William Fellowes
bill.fellowes@hotmail.com