Project Management & Family Life
A Power Duo
You can find a way to manage it ALL!
At Manage It All, project management meets family life—because handling a toddler’s meltdown and managing a project crisis have more in common than you’d think!
Project management may sound complex, but it’s packed with life hacks for tackling everyday family chaos. And on the flip side, my family life stories break down project management concepts into easy-to-relate, real-life examples. Because sometimes, the best way to understand risk management is by surviving a grocery store trip with kids.
Let’s make life a little smoother—and project management a lot more fun!
LATEST STORIES
Read along — and feel a little less alone in everyday family challenges.
Because staying calm gets you further than a perfect plan—especially when you can laugh at parenting mishaps and turn every experience into a smarter strategy for next time.
EPISODE 1: MORNING ROUTINE IS ONLY A CONCEPT
From vanished swimsuits to a six-year-old’s meltdown over a carrot she ate herself the night before: why a family morning never runs like a standard process and why surviving until 8:30 AM feels like a full workday.
12. November 2026
HOW A 10-Year-Old and a floating bamboo stick rewrote our outing risk register
From single points of failure (a missing towel) to severe scope creep (unexpected ocean swimming in full clothes), read how one family turned a soaked Sunday afternoon into a hilarious lesson in risk mitigation, contingency planning, and surviving parenting one post-mortem at a time.
31. October 2026
WHEN “Project Zoo” gets Drenched
What do innovation projects and family outings have in common? Setbacks, unforseen risks and stakeholders who stop listening right after you say “zoo”. Here’s what happened when “project Zoo” met Silver week traffic and torrential rain - and why drenched shoes were worth every drop.
8. October 2026
THE BASICS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
WHAT IS A PROJECT?
A project is a temporary effort carried out to produce a unique outcome, this outcome can be a product or a service. It has a defined timing with a starting point and an end. A project has also a specific objective - which has to be defined at the beginning, once it is achieved the project is closed.
FAMILY LIFE
Whether it’s a day trip, a big getaway, or planning a kid’s birthday party, every experience teaches us something. Here you find a collection of ideas for your inspiration.
In project management, we call it Return on Experience or Retrospective—taking a close look at what worked, what was missing and what we would definitively do differently next time. The real value comes from sharing these insights with stakeholders and teams across the organization, helping everyone work smarter, avoid repeating mistakes, and build on what already works. After all, why reinvent the wheel when you can fine-tune it instead?
