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Ambiguity is not a gift.

Ambiguity may be unavoidable at times, or necessary for a season, but one thing is clear, it is never an ideal. When serving the people or ideas you care about: Ambiguity is not a gift.

Perspective: Illustrated from Space

The attached photo is via NASA and shows a different view of the US for the Thanksgiving holiday, touting The United States has more roads—4.1 million miles (6.6 million kilometers)—than any other nation in the world, and roughly 40 percent more than second-ranked India. About 47,000 of those U.S. miles are part of the Interstate […]

Project Management and Entertainment Featured .

Recently the world of entertainment and, specifically app, film and game development were the feature on the front page of PM Network–the professional magazine for the Project Management Institute (PMI), the governing body of the project management world. The focus of the article was how the the stories in games, apps and/or film can’t happen […]

My Very First Blcklst.com Post

By their own definition, “The Black List is where moviemakers find great scripts to make and scripts find moviemakers to make them.” Located at http://www.blcklst.com, it’s a site that seeks to connect unrepresented writers to producers looking for scripts. As a writer you create an account, upload your script (for $25/month) and fill in an […]

Project Libre Makes Computer World’s Top Open Source Projects

ProjectLibre is a great resource that I’ve often recommended to those who were just implementing Project Management methodology into their company and wanted to try out the use of a program without investing fully in MS Project. It’s certainly got its issues but it is constantly improving and offers a whole suite of products (ProjectOffice […]

Comic-Con Is Spreading

I love Comic-Con and had a blast attending the 2011 event. Where else can you hear Steven Spielberg introduce his next movie (at the time, TinTin) from a personal standpoint, Peter Jackson, Josh Whedon and others like them passionately passing out their takes on story and life? An experience I will not forget. But […]

Project Management Software Apps–Sorting it out

Sorting through Project Management software can wear out the most diligent investigator. There is just a mass of options. Not long ago GetApp.com created the helpful infographic below sorting the top 25 that was worth sharing. I have used MS Project and often suggested ProjectLibre as an introduction since it is open source. And looking […]

Courage: Best Definition Ever

My son is 7 and for the last two years, we have been working on facing the things we fear. There is no perfect answer but given that we all experience fear as an unavoidable challenge, I didn’t want him to think the goal of courage was to be the absence of fear–just the mastery […]

In Art as In Life – Thanks Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy, probably best known for his blockbuster novel, The Prince of Tides (over 5 million sold worldwide as well as a celebrated film) once said that to be a storyteller in the written word: “Write like you are in love. Edit like you are in charge.” Once I heard that quote I could never […]

EVM 3: Cost Analysis

Cost analysis is basically determining progress in terms of the amount of work completed (EV-Earned Value) vs. what was paid to get the work done (AC-Actual Cost) So in our previous film example, we know that the EV was $40,000 and the AC was $80,000. The formula for the Cost Performance Index (CPI) is EV/AC […]