Welcome

What is Knowing Projects

Welcome to "Knowing Projects" aka www.patbyrne.biz.

This is my place to explore concepts in project management and lots of related areas. 

It is a work in progress, so please forgive me for some of the small ongoing changes.

It is a large and relatively eclectic subject area, but I will slowly build the site to hopefully illustrate their relationships. I also want to "explain" concepts and how things might be done in certain contexts.

In short, I believe there is a lot of room to improve on some of the elements of project management and to improve on how these are "explained".  This is where my Project Knowledge Model (PKM) comes into it.  I hope to expose much of the PKM in my blog and other writings.  I am also hopeful it will be of some value to you, the reader.  I look forward to conversing with you so that we can all get to know projects better

Here is a little bit about me, here is my blog, here are some papers, presentations, and various reviews.  Here is the site of my primary business (HolisTech Pty Ltd) and here is some detail on my Doctorate.

Contact

Have an interesting time and of course I would be more than happy to chat or email about anything on these pages. If you would like to do that, then feel free to get in touch.


Latest Blog Entries

PMOz and SEPG 2008 – More Comment

I was pointed to this site by Graham Durant-Law as Torsten had commented on my review of PMOz and SEPG. Torsten also has a comprehensive overview of the conference here. I agree with a lot of what he has to say and have commented on both his entries on his blog.

Wayne Bennett – Don’t Die with the Music in You

Book – Wayne BennettBennett, W. and Crawley, S., Wayne Bennett - Don't Die with the Music in You, ABC Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2007

I have this question I ask at dinners/lunches which is "If you could have any three people as dinner guests who would you have?" with the variations of dead or alive or alive only or politicians or sports people and so on. It can sometimes give you an insight into the person, but it always throws up surprises as often they are an obscure person. I am shallow enough to admit that Elle McPherson is always on my list (...because she is an inspirational business person ... duh!!). BUT ...the other one is Wayne Bennett ...and I often change the third person.

The Project Knowledge “Elephant” (02)

When it comes to "seeing the elephant", it is best to see the elephant early rather than late such as in the "big bang" approach to requirements definition and system development. If you don't see the elephant early then you need to have mechanisms that permit you to quickly respond to the elephant as you see it. This is epitomised by the agile software development processes.

KM for Teams and Projects

Book – KM for Teams and ProjectsMilton, N, Knowledge Management for Teams and Projects, Chandos Publishing, Oxford, 2005

This book started slowly for me. But once I could see where Nick Milton was coming from, quite a few things "clicked". Being a project and program manager myself, some of his concepts resonated tremendously and I will implement them in some of the areas I work in including some of my clients.

The Project Knowledge “Elephant” (01)

In this next series of blogs, I intend to explore my Project Knowledge Model (PKM) in more detail but rather at the program level as I have in my previous blogs, this is at the project level. It is a model of projects that permits a "melody" of knowledge/information constructs that in turn provides an insight into the anatomy of a project.

The first item on the agenda is understanding what I call the "knowledge elephant".

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Welcome to Knowing Projects

A Place to Explore Project Management Concepts