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Starting with the end in mind — lessons from the streets
How many times have we been brought in to rescue a project, and we find out that the engineers had started work without really taking the time to define what success looks like?
Here’s a lesson on thinking before you act from a recent police blotter from my neighborhood. Yes, it’s a true story.
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A Little Help from My Friends…
Two current or former colleagues will join me at the PMI NorCal Symposium 2008 on September 3-4 at Stanford University.
My co-author of Project Sponsorship and close friend is Alfonso Bucero. All projects need an executive sponsor. Upper management support for projects consistently surfaces as a critical success factor and sets the pace for [...]
Improving Project Maturity…in Government?
How do you fix a woefully underfunded government organization and implement over 50 significant citizen serving systems in less than 4 years? What core values helped Honolulu rise to be ranked 8th in the United States in 2007 by the Center for Digital Government for the deployment of Technology? How do [...]
Scenario #3 – No thanks, I want to do a good job here
Patal Fray was Project Manager of a very big and important project for his firm. He was very proud to have been given this assignment and assured his VP that he would bring it in successfully, on time, if not ahead of time.
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The POO Code, Chapter Five
The applause was thundering as the magician completed his performance. Proman A. Jecgert had hired the magician to help celebrate the completion of what would come to be called Phase One. The party included all participants across the organization. The grove in the trees was a perfect setting, and the sun shone [...]
Buried In The Details: Again!
There’s a remodel going on in my house, and the general contractor spends so much time actually doing the finish carpentry, that overall management of the remodel project suffers. I can’t get change order costs from him so I know how much money I need to finish the job! He’s making compound cuts on crown [...]
Know Your Project Management Career Development Critical Success Factors
Rosemary Hossenlopp, MBA PMP © 2007 All Rights Reserved
We all want to be experts in our project management field. What gets us recognized?
Success Factors Make Your Success Happen
Success factors are key activities you need to do to make your future happen. Success factors are things that must happen for career advancement to occur. These drive [...]
