Herding Cats by Glen Alleman intends to establish the processes needed to increase the probability of project success from my experience and domain knowledge. Through Glen – a Programme Planning and Controls manager in aerospace, defense, government, and enterprise IT domains – Herding Cats has been adding daily updates since March 2005 as an avenue to channel the advice practicing project and programme managers consistently sought in Glen’s working life.
“Colleagues kept asking for information and advice. When low cost self contained blogs came along it was a natural outlet,” he recalls.
“From my field experience, there are many myth, misunderstanding, and sometime just erroneous information about the processes of project management. The Blog is intended to establish the processes needed to increase the probability of project success from my experience and domain knowledge.”
A former university level math and science teacher, Glen rose from software writer to aerospace radar and sonar processing, then got a taste of the project and programme atmosphere over the last 15 years in the defence and heavy industry domain.
“I’ve been in and out of consulting, so my experience is both “advisory” and “application” of that advice,” he says.
Glen says the most widely read post on Herding Cats is an intuitively funny piece on virulently pro-PM2.0 advocates:
One element that Glen feels very strongly about is the notion of the inability to separate principle from practice, fearing that principles today are too closely framed around practices, and vice-versa.
“Practices without principles usually leads to disappointment. Principles without practices is nice classroom work, but usually never results in success,” he says.
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