Bare Bones Project Management was supposed to be nothing more than a lightweight summary of standard project management practice. A few years and several hundred seminar participants later, it turns out that it is, in fact, more than that. Unlike traditional IT project management it asks project managers and project teams to take responsibility, not only for completing projects, but for their success as well.

Who knew that would be controversial.

Old joke: Did you hear about the guy who had a dog with no legs? Every morning he took it out for a drag.

Some managers consider that to be their job description.

To avoid that sad fate, imagine it’s as I proposed two weeks ago: You and every other executive and manager in your organization have the same responsibilities you do now, but without any authority at all, because the Board of Directors suddenly removed the right to compel from the management job description.

How much would change?