Andrew Chan

Andrew Chan, PMP, Stanford Certified Project Manager, MBA in Project Management, has over 10 years of high tech project management experiences.

Rich Project Manager, Poor Project Manager

Rich Project Manager, Poor Project Manager

Even after the 5 stages of team formation, as project managers, we still find people not being able to work together well, ourselves included. We have to deal with sponsors, stakeholders, team members and C level management. There is no question that some people can get things accomplished, issues resolved much easier, more successful [...]

!@#%$%! = Team Bonding?

!@#%$%! = Team Bonding?

“To err is human, to forgive divine”, therefore is cursing and swearing considered an acceptable human err in a workplace? In my past 12 years as a program manager, cursing and swearing have never being absent in all my projects. But as a project manager, where do you stand on this?

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“Vivo Per Lei”

During an intermission of Andrea Bocelli’s concert tonight, I was comparing his concert tour project manager job to my own high tech project execution. How much difference, how big of a headache would it be and would I want to do it, I asked myself.

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Project Managers wear PRADA

Project Managers wear PRADA

And who says Project Managers do not know fashion couture? How does this tie to what we do daily you ask? PRADA is actually an acronym for a set of characteristics or values that I believe should be inherent in any successful project managers and I have encouraged my project managers to think [...]