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Good Wine Needs No Bush

This evening I was on the train with Bart. Most of the time we chat about wine but this time we were on to the subject of project management. Several interesting points came out of our discussion. The consensus of our discussion is that there are too many people who think project management equals project […]

Good Lemonade

Don’t abuse change management activities to repackage and advertise bad lemonade. If the lemonade is bad, be straight about it. Work on the lemonade instead of accusing the buyers. Use change management activities to bring about involvement and participation that triggers an invisible hand.

The Time Factor

As I am writing this we are about to shake up a traditional organization by means of an SAP implementation. Most of the times this is regarded as a pure software implementation: design the system, configure the system, test the system and roll it out. That is how most software engineers look at it and […]

Virginia, To Thee I Pray

Over the past months I have been shaking up the realities of a team that is supposed to deliver IT services to my team.