How software development misremembered Winston Royce and then made the misunderstanding real I recently read Winston W. Royce’s 1970 paper, Managing the Development of Large Software Systems which many say defined the start of the Waterfall method for software development. Like many project professionals, I knew the paper mainly through […]
Yearly Archives: 2026
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For decades, the profession of project management (and most project managers) have attempted to sell us all a comforting myth. The myth is that projects are, by default, certain. That with enough upfront planning, the right tools and techniques, and sufficient discipline, uncertainty can be reduced to the point where […]
I have been working and thinking a lot lately about creative projects and managing them successfully. Creative projects are projects that are both delivering something relatively hard to define throughout substantial portions of the project, and also involve creative types of people delivering the work. These two facets make them […]
There is a persistent belief in the creative world that project management (or management of any sort) is the enemy of creativity. That once you introduce structure, plans, schedules, or budgets, the magic drains out of the work creativity gets “managed” to death. I think this is a myth. And […]