Weed Your Life
Here’s another personal musing promoted by what I’ve come to call the “alcoholidays”. This time of year my mind wanders […]
Team Leadership
Brave New World
Project Management in a Brave New World Which level of proof do you require on your projects? Do you have
The Hitchikers Guide to the PMBOK
“The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.” “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they
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Status is Important… Is That Right?
One of your responsibilities as Project Manager is to ensure project milestones are being met, and that everyone is on
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We Feed Off Your Fear…
A couple of weeks ago we celebrated Veterans’ Day, and of course all government offices, banks, schools, and many businesses
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Influence & Expectations
As Project Managers, you have many tools at your disposal to help you succeed. You’ve got extensive training, some measure
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Integrating Lean Six Sigma and Project Management Skills! Part I (of III series this week) – Applicability to Industrial Professionals!
Industry Professionals: In this 3-part series, we will share with our readers on how skills in the process excellence area
Why projects fail?
So many projects depend on IT and business alignment, and so many fail because that alignment is often like a Platonic ideal unrealizable in the real world. The question is:
why projects fail,
who’s to blame,
and how to fix the problem.
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How to correct a peer so they will listen
Someone recently asked me “If I see a peer doing something wrong, how can I gently correct them so that they will change their behavior, and how can I do it without giving offense?”Unsolicited advice is a tricky business because it includes at least three faulty premises.
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Spaces, Points and the Brain
I was speaking with a project manager the other day who complained that his boss was always telling him to
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Project Mangers, Points and the Space in between
How might we apply the observations Richard Nisbett made in his book Geography of Thought to the project-driven workplace? Is
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