Category: Project Management
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Project Managent-12: the Final-Repeatable Success in Project Management
By now in this series, we’ve explored various stages and angles of project management. If you’ve gained even a bit of experience — and managed to read something other than the nonsense I write — you’ve likely noticed something: the processes are surprisingly systematic.Every field may bring its own intensity and quirks, but at the…
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Project Management-11: The Importance of Psychological Safety in Teamwork
On Teams, Communication, and Why Meaning Matters In my previous post, I started with “communication” but quickly veered off into other directions. So this time, I want to come back to the core — communication — and explore what we expect from it. Teams Are Everywhere “Team” is a great context to discuss communication and…
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Project Management-10: Avoiding Common Communication Pitfalls in Projects
Communication is one of the most overlooked aspects of work life. Yet, the true secret behind a successful project — and effective project management — boils down to just one thing: effective communication. In professional life, it’s not your technical expertise but your ability to present your work that often sets you apart. As long…
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Project Management-9: The Paradox of Freedom:
Free Slaves: The Paradox of Modern Work Life I titled this piece Free Slaves because we, the white-collar workers, are just that — free slaves. Or worse, we’re the tribe members who betrayed their own to ensure the efficient functioning of the system, believing ourselves to be masters. We call ourselves “free” because outside of…
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Project Management-8: Quality and Control Explained
Quality, Control & A Pinch of Salt I originally planned this project management series to be 10–12 posts. I’ve already published seven, then I got a little bored. Honestly, explaining it can be just as exhausting as doing the work itself. But I won’t quit before finishing. So, here I am again, back at the…
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Project Management-7: Optimizing Procurement Like Online Shopping
Project Management: What Ordering Online Taught Me About Procurement Before ordering anything online, we spend hours reading reviews, comparing prices, checking specs, reading more reviews, and double-checking if we made the right decision. And of course — we want that item to arrive as quickly as possible, at the perfect time. In project management, it’s…
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Project Management-6: Measuring Project Success, Key Metrics to Know
We continue our project management series with a question: Is success measurable?Let’s be honest — to your managers, you’re just a bunch of statistics.If something can’t be quantified, it doesn’t matter. Is that really the case? It shouldn’t be — at least not for good managers. But sometimes, hiding behind the mask of “rationality,” people…
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Project Management-5: Achieve Results Efficiently
Summer comes and how about the project? Everything feels great while munching on chocolates, flatbreads, and pastries… until summer hits. Then it’s: “Oh no, I’ve gained so much weight!” You rush to start working out, trying to fit back into your dress, bikini, pants, shorts, or suit—but by the time you’re halfway there, summer’s already…
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Project Management-4: Balancing Control and Empowerment
We’ve arrived at the heart of the action—the part the team loves the most: the execution phase. This is where confidence runs high and everyone starts working based on a shared understanding. For the project manager, this stage is both satisfying and, frankly, a bit painful. The joy lies in seeing the plan finally come…
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Project Management-3: Germans
I once watched a debate on TV about why we’re no longer a country of innovation—why we can’t compete with the U.S. The answer is simple: it’s our German-ness. One of the most defining traits of Germans is their obsession with planning. Everything must be predictable, everything must be systematic, and the system must function…
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