books… Book Review: From Projects to Programs, a Program Manager’s Journey 19 Aug 201419 Aug 2014 Can you define Program Management? How different is it from Project Management? What does a Program Manager ‘do’ if they are not managing the projects in their program? Those are…
Business Value… Meeting Manners: 3 Project Management Hacks 18 Jul 2014 I’m always searching for new hacks for Project Management. This past week I ran across two from different sources: one from Inc magazine, another from SPAM. Since three really is…
Business Value… Project Management Coaching Workbook: Book Review 27 May 201428 May 2014 Self-improvement doesn't happen by chance or by accident. However, if you don't have any place to start from and nothing to set a goal against, the odds are that your desire for…
Agile… PMXPO 2014: Worth Another Look 12 May 2014 For PMs with little free time and no money for conferences, online conferences on Project Management have started to spring up. PMXPO is one of the conferences taking advantage of the online…
books… Personal Effectiveness in Project Management: Book Review 28 Apr 2014 “...You’re on the right path when you make decisions and take actions that are true to your values, diversity, passions and core goal - it’s the inside path of your…
Business Value… The Whys of Stakeholders 26 Mar 201426 Mar 2014 “As far as I can tell there are two inviolable truths about people and projects: - There’s a reason behind everything that everyone does on, to, for with, or against…
Business Value… Lessons Learned from Japanese: For Project Management 17 Feb 2014 I am a linguaphile. Not one of those people who spend hours pouring over grammar books or looking up obscure words. My grammar has always been shaky and my…
Business Acumen… Avoid Email Recall: Or Five Suggestions to Cope with Email as a PM 12 Sep 2013 In spite of Microsoft's best efforts, I've never seen Outlook successfully recall a message. Once out there - you lose control of the message and how it's read. To avoid…
Agile… Book Review: Commitment 28 Jul 20135 Aug 2013 Feeling trapped by your circumstances? You might be looking at some of your options as commitments. In Commitment, Olav Maasen and Chris Matts write that deferring a decision until the…
Agile… Questions For a Better Lessons Learned Meeting 18 Jul 2013 Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. -Oscar Wilde I love Post Mortems. At the end of every project, I have a strong urge to figure out what…
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