Business Value… The Portable Project Manager 31 Jul 2010 Portable Flexible Useful in various fields I’ve heard all of these phrases used about Project Management skills. The proposition is that if a seasoned Project Manager parachutes into a construction…
career… You Know You’re a Fundamentalist when… 24 Jul 201024 Jul 2010 Fundamentalism: strict adherence to any set of basic ideas or principles: the fundamentalism of the extreme conservatives. While I am very much into best practices, principles and PMBOKisms, I would…
Agile… July 2010: Bug on the Windshield: Personal Effectiveness, Project Management and Fun 17 Jul 201017 Jul 2010 It’s the third week of the month again. If you’re new here, the third week of every month, I pull together all the links that I’ve run into since last…
Business Value… How to Improve Your Virtual Meetings 10 Jul 2010 Life is full of situations that you can’t control. As a project manager this galls me on a regular basis, but I’ve learned to minimize the irritation by trying to…
Business Acumen… Unwritten Rules of Virtual Team Meetings (That no one ever really follows) 26 Jun 2010 We’ve come a long way from tribal living. We no longer talk to faces around nightly campfires. Today we listen to voices piped into our ears while sitting in air…
books… June 2010: Bug on the Windshield: Personal Effectiveness, Project Management & Fun 19 Jun 201019 Jun 2010 It’s the third week of the month again. If you’re new here, the third week of every month, I pull together all the links that I’ve run into since last…
books… Book Review: Mojo – a Good Read for PMs 5 Jun 20105 Jun 2010 “Mojo plays a vital role in our pursuit of happiness and meaning because it is about two simple goals: loving what you do and showing it." “Mojo is that positive…
books… How To Handle Adversity 22 May 2010 How do you handle Project Adversity? Or any setback for that matter? Most project managers take setbacks hard. We think about our part in them and like cows chewing cud,…
Branding… Got Certification? Why You Should Stay a PMI Member 8 May 2010 I have tried two times to write this post. By the time I’m halfway through it, the post reads like a bad PMI Membership brochure. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t come back…
Branding… PMs: Time to Move to Digital Books 24 Apr 2010 Early adopters never have it easy. Especially if you’re short on money. My early adopter days ground to a halt after buying the original IPod that was replaced by the…
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