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…
Business Acumen… How to Pivot Gracefully into a New Industry 8 Mar 20178 May 2017 Have you jumped from IT to Financial project management? Or from IT to Digital project management? What you don't know about the terminology, risks, and standard expectations in an industry…
Business Acumen… Are We Building Widgets or Reducing Costs? Using Benefits to Drive our Project Focus 8 Feb 20158 Feb 2015 As Project Managers we communicate daily to Customers, Salespeople and Senior Management. We could be using the PMI-approved words and concepts, but our focus may be frustrating our audience. To effectively…
Agile… Book Review: Personal Kanban 25 Jan 2015 "Like Traffic, work does not fit. Work flows." - Personal Kanban Do you ever look up at the end of the day and wonder 1) Where the day went? 2)…
books… Book Review: Teamwork is an Individual Skill 15 Dec 20144 Aug 2017 Teamwork Is an Individual Skill. The book title itself seems to turn our usual assumptions about teamwork upside down. And true to its title, the book tries to give its…
books… True communication is the response you get 7 Dec 2014 "True communication is the response you get. This phrase might need some explanation in order to make complete sense. It is based on the idea that no communication attempt initiated…
Business Value… Fighting Groupthink: How To Stop Conformity From Paralyzing Your Risk Management 8 Nov 20148 Nov 2014 "Over time, we learn to associate these two ideas: on the one hand, being in a crowd, and on the other, relinquishing responsibility. Crowd. Lack of responsibility. Crowd. Someone else…
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.…
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…
books… Manage Conflict Through Discovery? 2 Aug 2014 There’s more than one way to skin a cat. This is a very old saying essentially meaning there is more than one way to get to your goal. Most people…
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