What makes for a successful Project Manager?
My esteemed colleague Natalie Udo’s post a few weeks ago, “What is a Project Manager?” started me thinking about what […]
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Risk
A Tale of Three Cities – London, Toronto, and Redwood Shores
It had all the earmarks of a disaster, a real career-sinker of a project. And here was my old friend
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Sorry is not the final word, just the beginning
After years of managing online products and projects, you’d think it would become old hat… but never, not for this
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Lead by Fear and Intimidation or Lead by Positive Motivation… – Your Choice
As Project Managers, I’m sure we’ve all seen the kind of scenario where there is a project team member who
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So one muffin says to the other…
I’d like to start things off in this posting with a joke I heard on the US Television show, Two
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Risk? What Risk?
Every program manager has run into the same situation at some point in their career. You put together your program
talking about risks
One often-used lament I hear on projects and in project management classes is, “No one here wants to deal with
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The Power of Negative Thinking: Engineering Management in Reverse
Most of my work revolves around the power of creating breakthroughs through extreme optimism and hideously positive thinking for which
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Contingency People Planning: Working with the Dark Side
Halloween Bonus: What Do These 3 Tales Have in Common? PM Horror Stories 5, 6, and 7 The Incompetent Estimator
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What is a Risk?
By Frank Mangini Project management and risk management are two sides of the same coin. Projects cannot exist without risk.
It’s Easy to Add Complexity and Immaturity to a Probability-Impact Risk Table
You may be a user of risk Probability-Impact Tables; after all they are one of the most popular risk management
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