Project Turkey
Just as there are many ways to manage a project, there are many ways to cook a turkey. We all […]
best-practices
The Key to Successful Cross-functional Collaboration
Quick: what’s the biggest challenge in cross-functional collaboration? Bing! Yes, “building trusting, open relationships” is correct! Does that sound too
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How to Get the Estimates You Need
So you need to put together a schedule, but are having trouble getting estimates from your team? Believe it or
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Breaking the Cycle of Micromanagement
Does this sound familiar? Project Manager: I thought I knew where we stood, but turns out we’re further behind than
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Avoiding Communication Pitfalls
Ugh, the communication pitfall. We’ve all fallen into them. The question is, can you get out? Or better still, can
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The Making of Scrappy Project Management
On Oct. 9 we had the launch of my new book “Scrappy Project Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls
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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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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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Project Management Maturity with Virtual and Non-PM Teams?
Ahead of Friday’s Project Management Maturity Forum, guest speaker Brad Clark shares answers on a few advance questions from our participants. Brad is
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Keynote on Creating Excellence
Creating Excellence in/through Project Management means optimizing and achieving greater results from project-based work: realizing a competitive advantage by executing
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Outsourcing software development:a bad idea? (continued)
Unintended consequences? I certainly would agree with anyone who tells me there are appropriate circumstances and projects for outsourcing, whether
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