An organization or project that wants to ensure its success should practice sound risk management. According to the Project Management Institute, more than 80% of… Read More »Risk – It’s Not Just Another Four-Letter Word
Of the sixteen counties in and around the Nashville metro area, eight had mask mandates for much of the last two months. Of these eight,… Read More »The Effectiveness of Mask Mandates in the Nashville Metro Area
In my last post, I wrote about how COVID-19 in the United States is three distinct, somewhat regional outbreaks. In the Spring, cases peaked in… Read More »COVID-19 and Regional Waves of Hospitalizations
As of early October, the United States has experienced three distinct and somewhat regional outbreaks of COVID-19. The first was in the Northeastern states along… Read More »COVID-19 in the United States is Three Distinct Outbreaks
In the film Dirty Harry, the title character, a police detective played by Clint Eastwood, puts an end to an attempted bank robbery by shooting… Read More »Lucky or Good – The Role of Chance in Successful Projects
The U.S. state of Ohio and the African nation of Rwanda have similar size populations – 11.7 and 12.3 million people, respectively. Rwanda is crushing… Read More »Rwanda Is Crushing the COVID-19 Curve – But At What Cost?
The Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto noticed that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. The management guru Robert Juran… Read More »The Pareto Principle and COVID-19
Large projects, which take years, and even decades to complete, can become obsolete by the time they are finished, if not before. Long projects either… Read More »Obsolete on Arrival – The Problem of Change in Project Management
Six weeks ago, I wrote a blog post titled “Thank God for Mississippi.” It was a reference to an old saying in Alabama that even… Read More »Thank God for Louisiana
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense under Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush once stated, “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things… Read More »Unknown Unknowns and Project Risk