Claude Emond is one of the founders and president of Qualiscope Enterprises, a project management consulting, coaching and training firm based in Montreal, Canada. He has degrees in chemical engineering from Canada's Royal Military College (BEng) and Montreal McGill University (MEng), a MBA from Ottawa University, workshop leadership training from Le Centre Quebecois de la PNL, and is a certified PMP. He has over 25 years experience managing major public and private projects. He teaches project risk management in the Schulich School of Business Master certificate in project management and the PMP certification revision class for PMI, Montreal He is one of the authors of the current PMI Standards for Portfolio Management. Claude can be reached at I am sure you have never been forced to accept and include in your project schedule unrealistic data, most likely resulting from your project sponsor or your boss making a promise on a target end date. Never? Right!
Summarizing the Rules of Lean Project Management
My previous blog entry was presenting the last element of an eight-part series on the Rules of Lean Project Management (LPM). I wrote this series because I felt that, although it is viewed more and more nowadays as the path to better project management, LPM is really not well understood. In this context, presenting the main rules of LPM, as I see them, was aimed at helping us all better understand under what conditions project managers can really claim to use and live by Lean principles.
The Rules of Lean Project Management: Part 8
Using Lean Project Management Principles to Implement AND Adopt LPM
In my last three blog entries, I addressed some project management issues as they were happening to me, thus postponing my series on the rules of LPM. I continue here to expand my set of "rules". I will conclude the series with this 8th rule, probably not the last word on this, but the essence of LPM as I see it...for now.
From Lessons to Learn to Lessons Learned
At the end of many of my project management workshops, I discuss project or phase closing and the notions of post mortem and lessons learned.
The New Project Management; the French ... and Everyone Else!
Since 2006, I have been giving project management courses as part of a master degree in "Management by Project" for three associated French engineering schools, in Lyon, Rouen and Aix-in-Provence. This master program is being extended to two new schools next fall, Nancy and Toulouse and in 2010 to Paris and Nantes. I might end up passing more time there than in Canada to coach and teach project management.