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Thursday, March 03, 2005
PM - Getting Things Done -- I've got to start just posting. While I'm in the process of collecting and incubating on a range of links on a range of subjects, Jack Vinson has recently been beating me to the posting punch on those topics. (One of my favorite unknown Paul Simon songs is "Maybe I Think Too Much.")
"...people like Getting Things Done because it gives you a set of activities to reorient your work and make active progress. To me this seems like a lot of what good project management should do: orient people to what needs to be done and help them make progress.
This leads to my second connection: Project management isn't about creating Gantt and Pert charts. It is about getting things done."
Yup...that's what it's about. It's about getting rid of obstacles (and avoiding setting up obstacles) to performing the necessary and sufficient actions associated with your promises.
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