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…
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…
books… Mental Models 21 Sep 201421 Sep 2014 Do you control your mental models, or, do your mental models control you? If you are not aware that you have a choice of how to look at a situation…
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…
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…
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