project-manager

If you’re reading this, you are likely a project manager now or will be one soon. How well you do on actual projects depends as much on your leadership skills as your technical ones.
Here are six real-world keys which can help.
1.  Provide Common Vision
What was your best work experience?  If you’re like most people, it [...]

Moving up through the categories, I’ll discuss three now:

Project Manager Layoffs
Project Staff Reductions
Reduced PM rates.

Reading through the responses, may of them were not surprising. One thing I noted in a few posts was that some companies are shedding senior PMs and opting for less experienced ones. Of course I have no idea about [...]

While reviewing “Unearthing Business Requirements: Elicitation Tools and Techniques”, Rosemary Hossenlopp and Kathleen B. Hass, ManagementConcepts 2008, I discovered the role of ‘Business Analyst’, as a real, important role on projects. Yeah, I know

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Accidental Project Manager Series
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6
Part 4 of the Accidental Project Manger series talked about accelerating project success by managing all the global stakeholders.
Another issue you need to manage is project communication. You now have the business case in hand (from [...]

Accidental Project Manager Series
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6
Part 3 of the Accidental Project Manger series talked about making sure you are working on a project that is important to your organization (and to your next promotion) by documenting benefits in a business case.
Another [...]

Accidental Project Manager Series
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6
Part 1 of the Accidental Project Manger series talked about some of the disastrous consequences of not having a formal onboarding process for new project managers.  Next, I want to ask you, why did you accepts [...]

Accidental Project Manager Series
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6
I was attending a dinner at the Northern California Airman’s Club where Eileen Colleens, commander of the a US space shuttle flight was speaking. Before she spoke, three college students received scholarships. They as a group [...]

By Hal Macomber, Project Reformer
10 Adopt practices for exploring a variety of perspectives.
We think we see what we see, but we don’t. We really see what we think. Remember the blind men and the elephant. Make it your habit to inquire what others see. You’ll see more together.

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There is a group of forensic chemists who gather periodically for something called “The Bite-mark Breakfast”, where they are treated to a slide show of various bite marks which they attempt to identify while enjoying their eggs, sausage and toast. (This popped into my head this morning as I was feeding my cat. [...]

Much as he did earlier in his career, Proman was now at another crossroad. The large program had just concluded. What’s next? He noticed how engaged he’d felt during the process. Each day he threw himself into the proceedings with renewed vigor and seemed to know instinctively what to do. [...]

I’m old enough to remember life before “Smart” Phones, Cell Phones, PDAs, and Email.  Heck, I still remember the smell of the mimeograph machine when I was in elementary school.  Today I have a “Smart” phone; you know part mobile phone, part PDA, part computer, and it contains everything about your day-to-day life; including pictures [...]

I just loved the latest grievance from my students (see Monday/Tuesday/Thursday posts).  When being given more work than schedule to accomplish it, or additional tasks on top of their “primary” assignment, upon replying that they were going to have to slip something, that they couldn’t get it all done on schedule, they were told by [...]

Why would anyone want to be a project manager (PM)?
It’s a lot of work. It’s been said, only partly jokingly, that a PM may spend about 80% of his or her time on communication tasks, and the remaining 80% on the other required tasks.
We get a lot of responsibility and hardly any true control. [...]

Rosemary Hossenlopp, MBA PMP © 2007 All Rights Reserved
If you don’t want the project manager same job you had last year, you need to plan differently this year. So make a new years resolution to create a project management development plan.
What Do I Focus On?
In the last blog, you identified success factors that are your [...]

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 [...]

Rosemary Hossenlopp, MBA PMP © 2007 All Rights Reserved
We discussed in Part One how to be hired by clients and loved by your bosses. Now we talk about what makes you thrive in your project management position.
A Personal Vision Statement Formula
Your personal vision statement will consist of what you are known for and what atmosphere [...]

Rosemary Hossenlopp, MBA PMP
 My desire is that project managers will find clarity in discussing what is important for them and create a vision to help them, their families, communities and organizations meet the challenges of the New Year with wisdom, grace, and joy.
What are your holiday greetings for the UCSC project management community? Please add [...]

Rosemary Hossenlopp, MBA PMP © 2007 All Rights Reserved
Project managers increase the chance of project failure by not planning project work. You have heard the saying “Plan the Work and Work the Plan.” It is true for career planning too. Project managers limit their personal success and growth by failing to plan their careers. Layoff’s [...]

Rosemary Hossenlopp, MBA PMP © 2007 All Rights Reserved
What did you talk about during your holiday parties? If you didn’t talk about your job, why not? Maybe you were avoiding the subject because your project work just isn’t s exciting as it has been in the past. Or it could be because you were stunned [...]