Risks or Problems – What’s the Difference?
Most of us know that risk comes inherent with a project because projects involve unknowns. What I find in my […]
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Sunday’s Pithy Blog – Better Communications Through Ah Counting
We all know that project management is primarily a people business. As such, communicating with humans is the most important skill
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ProjectConnections Horror Story Contest
One of our guest bloggers, Cinda Voegtli, is the CEO of ProjectConnections.com Cinda’s running a contest, and the prize is
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Getting through those HOOPS!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had an article on job stress that says that being expected to do more with less,
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SAVING TIME AND GENERATING ENERGY: THE MEETING WITH YOUR BOSS(ES)!
One of my favorite activities as a Consultant/Coach is fostering the use of “questioning” to really liberate people from their
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Oh no! Not another meeting, phone con, videoconference?
Fact: Project schedules or budgets seldom include “meeting” time costs which often exceed 35% of time available to work on
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Stopping the Second Guessing of Leaders above: The Big 3 tips: Branding, Surfing, Dashboards
First Branding: Herman: I am not in marketing or sales! How can branding my Project save ME time with stakeholders?
A Common Sense Approach to Managing Risk
This weekend I was teaching Project Risk and Opportunity Management at Santa Clara University in the graduate engineering school. As
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HERMAN THE PM’S WOE: Has Email become RADIO?
Read this week’s blogs and SAVE at least 3 project days a year of time wasted: This week’s blogs help
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I’m with the Band: Books For Project People Part 1
I am NOT a Project Manager. As a technology business strategist working primarily with emerging technology projects, I spend most
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A System Perspective on Project Management Part II -The Mega Project
As I write this I am helping to facilitate a workshop dealing with how to transition the US portion
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