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 high-performing organizations apply risk management. The best way for a… 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, all except one were ended or allowed to expire at… 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 the Northeast, then in the Southeast in the Summer. Now… 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 with Michigan and Illinois (concentrated in Detroit and Chicago). In… 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 two of the robbers, and then holds the third at… 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 the COVID-19 curve while Ohio has not. See the graph… 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 noticed that this type of inequality held true for many… 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 face addressing a series of changes in requirements to meet… 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 though the state was ranked 48th or 49th out of… 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 we know. We know also there are known unknowns; that… Unknown Unknowns and Project Risk