Today I took the time to read the first two chapters of a book considered “the Bible” of project management. The book is called “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge also known as the PMBOK Guide and it was written by an American nonprofit professional organization called Project Management Institute. This is […]
As technology advances, new manufacturing paradigms are shifted and new ways of producing goods are created. According to an article on Phill Cartwright, executive chairman of the Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS) in the UK, Industry 4.0 is the current industrial revolution we are in and we are slowly but surely moving into the […]
Today I got my first online lecture from Stockholm University. The company I work for was more than happy to lend me a corner in the parcel reception room to follow the online lecture, which was quite the funny experience. As I had my laptop speakers on full blast, the sound was somewhat echoing in […]
According to an article posted on Time (When Did Humans Discover Fire?) it took humans hundreds of thousands of years to discover and master the use of fire. Humans observed how fire can be used as a helpful tool for hunting, walking in the dark, as protection against the freezing elements but also protection against […]
Some thoughts on leadership within IT projects. One observation that is becoming more apparent to me is that more often than not, people with a non-technical background are put in charge of a software project. Many of these people try, intentionally or not, to manage a project ‘by the book’. They attempt to manage a […]
