Agile… A Semi-serious Proposal for PMBOK v7: the Manage Emotions Process 26 Oct 201726 Oct 2017 Proposal for PMBOK Guide, Version 7. A semi-serious proposal: Addition to the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Manage Emotions Process Inputs: Monitor and Control Project Work outputs Perform Integrated Change…
books… Plan Some of Your Work, Work that Plan 22 Nov 201422 Nov 2014 The adaptive, flexible approach....views projects as dynamic, unstable, and hard-to-predict processes. It assumes that changes will take place during project execution - changes in the environment, the business, the markets,…
Communication Management… Complicated or Complex? Classifying Projects 19 Oct 201419 Oct 2014 Complicated or Complex How would you define them? Several years ago I would have thought they were nearly the same thing. Apparently, they are slightly different. In a recent…
Learning… Staying Motivated: Keeping Your Focus on Daily Quality 31 Aug 2014 Quality. The term itself seems to lend itself to all the wrong images and connotations. It seems to give off an ‘eat your broccoli’, ‘floss your teeth’ kind of feeling.…
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…
Branding… Shisso: Where are we going in 2014? 5 Jan 2014 On Feb 12, 2009, I started my blog with a post titled: “Under Construction”. This is what I wrote: To my under construction blog. My goal is to write about…
Business Value… Get Thankful 2 Jul 20132 Jul 2013 Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone G.B. Stern Some of us, you know who you are, have a bad habit of not expressing our gratitude to others. Sometimes…
consensus… Why would you use a WBS? 26 Jun 201326 Jun 2013 Starting anything is hard. You're anxious about what you don't know. You're aware that you could be missing something critical. And you are smart enough to know that you don't…
books… PMP Renewal Time: Random Thoughts 29 Jan 2012 There are weeks that I hate being a project manager. On those weeks my job seems to be an endless round of... Jumping through bureaucratic hoops 'Playing Telephone' Managing myself…
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