Week 2 of celebrity apprentice was another star studded showdown, where the teams began to move past the usual team dynamics of forming, through to storming. Last week things were so cordial that when the women were in the boardroom, Donald was reduced to vulgarity out of frustration because they wouldn’t throw each other under the bus. This week, we began to see some of the personality conflicts staging as the stress of the task set in.
Tag: project charter
Tags: Communications, Objectives, project charter, risk management, Scope, scope statement, teambuilding
The premier of the third season of Celebrity Apprentice certainly provided lots of grist for the gristmill and the portent of intriguing things to come.
Several themes emerged during the first episode, which had the teams (divided by gender) run a New York diner for a few hours:
- Cindi Lauper was an ineffective leader for the women’s team and Holly Robinson Peete demonstrated the concept of “emergent leadership” in the vacuum left in Lauper’s wake.
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In PMI’s (Project Management Institute’s) Project Management Body of Knowledge or PMBOK – which is the bible of project management, there are 9 knowledge areas discussed– Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk, and Procurement. Anyone who has studied for their PMP certification knows these well – ad nauseum even, and knows that the PMBOK discusses these with equal weight. Indeed, PMI loves all of her knowledge area “children” equally, but out in the real world there is one that I believe deserves your extra undivided attention and that is scope. › Continue reading…