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…
career… Back to the Essentials 14 Mar 2014 Last week when I read The No. 1 Time Management Mistake Capable People Make I was excited for half a day. Greg McKeown suggests that instead of multi-tasking madly, we…
Emotional Intelligence… Project Managers: Your Health trumps Project Health 2 Mar 2014 Last week I realized something important. I take better care of my car than I do of my body. I was sitting in the dealership, answering questions about the state…
Emotional Intelligence… Catching the Wind: Or why write meeting minutes? 20 Jan 2014 Oaths are but words and words are but wind - Samuel Butler There are moments during your day when could swear that you’ve already had this conversation before…. facilitated the…
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 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…
Communication Management… Are We On the Same Page? 13 Aug 2013 Are we on the same page? That question has already become a cliche, but it captures the sense that we're talking in circles around each other, not really attacking the…
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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