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TEDxToronto Reflections

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TEDxToronto Reflections

ere are some takeaways from the conference:

  • [Satish Kanwar] Barter economies = everyone was an entrepreneur
    • Don't wait for THEY to make a decision or make a moment
    • Name an entrepreneur...The next time you answer, I hope you say that you are
  • [Jeremie Saunders] We place death far off in the distance. What if I knew I was going to die at 30 years old?
    • "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." - Mark Twain

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As an Artist, Why should I care about the Triple Constraint?

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As an Artist, Why should I care about the Triple Constraint?

GURL. 

The Triple Constraint is so important. I'm glad you asked the question because Imma break it down for you real quick.

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The Physiological Response to Procrastination

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The Physiological Response to Procrastination

I am guilty of doing it and you, dear reader, are probably guilty of it too.

Procrastination.

After every session I would tell myself, "never again", but lo and behold the following semester I found myself cramming in last-minute information for exams or furiously typing an assignment.

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"Chunking" Sounds More Fun than Work Breakdown Structure

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"Chunking" Sounds More Fun than Work Breakdown Structure

Before I even knew what project management was, I was simply breaking down my big goals into step-by-step processed and called it chunking. Now we have fancy smancy terms for it.

Chunking = the hierarchical decomposition of a project

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60+ Quotes from Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

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60+ Quotes from Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

“We like market research because it provides certainty - a score, a prediction; if someone asks us why we made the decision we did, we can point to a number. But the truth is that for the most important decisions, there can be no certainty.” - Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, pg.176

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12 Project Management Pet Peeves

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12 Project Management Pet Peeves

5. Requiring Verbal Foreplay

"Project Managers don't care about the niceties of social interactions. I actually heard someone tell a project manager that they needed some "verbal foreplay" before jumping into all the work talk. Seriously, while we are asking about your kid's stupid play, all we are thinking about it how long do we have to endure the boring chatter until we can finally ask when the heck your report is going to be done and many times, our insincerity shows." - Melissa D

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List of 500+ Stakeholders

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List of 500+ Stakeholders

Stakeholders have the power to:

  • provide funding or take it away
  • fill your workshops/events/exhibitions/etc. or leave them empty
  • offer major decisions that push the organization forward or into the ground
  • execute the project deliverables or completely screw up the deliverables
  • manage project team members' progress or allow the project to run awry
  • keep your vision/mission alive or completely skew your mission/vision

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Why, as an Artist, You Should Think Inside the Box

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Graphic designers and videographers, how often have you heard the following:

  • It would be really great if...

  • Could you just make this tiny edit?

  • Do you mind adding this one thing?

This my friends, is called scope creep.

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Auditing a Closed Project: Questions That Address 47 Processes

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Auditing a Closed Project: Questions That Address 47 Processes

Below are some of the questions I've asked other project managers in regards to their closed projects:

  • What were the biggest headaches with the project you supported?
  • If you could do it again, what aspects would you change?
  • How did you deal with team members that stopped communicating?
  • How much did planning help with the project?
  • What last minute surprises occurred that threw you off guard?
  • What were some great outcomes of the project?