My wife and I were lounging about on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday just being more or less quiet and happy and talking gently about the things the day and the rest of the week would bring. Have you finished the column you needed to write? she...
It’s that time of year when
I take a deep breath and
pray upon the past year,
throw darts at a dartboard to
get my net profit goal for next
year and roll a single die to determine
what percent of salary
When I first started writing this column back in 1998, project management didnt have the hype and sexy cach that it has today. There werent any groupies chasing project managers (okay, project managers do attract a different kind of groupie than...
Even with the continued industry trend (perhaps because of it?) of separating the career paths, job descriptions and responsibilities of senior- level estimators and project managers, knowledge of how to accurately estimate jobs is still a very...
When I first started writing this column back in 1998, project management didn't have the hype and sexy cach that it has today. There weren't any groupies chasing project managers (okay, project managers do attract a different kind of groupie than...
I once had a foreman who was about 30 years old with 10 years' experience and wanted to become a project manager so bad he could taste it. He read every single word of every single issue of CONTRACTOR. He read everything in our public library's...
I SAW A help-wanted ad in the 1980s that I remember to this day. With precious little exaggeration and a ton of implied irony, this company said it was looking for a young man "under 40 years" of age who had degrees in both architecture and...
Project management authority THERE ARE THREE types of people in this world: those who have a basic grasp of math and those who don't. Forty percent of the people in this world understand fractions and the other 75% have no clue. And there are two...
WHILE THE HEADLINE sounds a little harsh, I suppose, it is designed to grab your attention (which apparently it did or you wouldn't be reading this opening sentence) and also start a thought process. Truly, how many hours of your employees' time...
I sit here at the computer writing this column on the 50th anniversary of my birth, which, coincidentally, is approximately the 30th anniversary of my career in project management and estimating. After 30 years in this job, I still don't know all...
