Loyal Mealer - Silicon Valley Project Management

Building a greenhouse can highlight critical elements of a successful project in any discipline – part 2

By Loyal Mealer / October 13, 2012

The process of procuring and building a greenhouse has given me some very concrete examples of some of the most […]

By Loyal Mealer / October 12, 2012

My wife, Karen, and I recently relocated from the Silicon Valley to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. The process

By Loyal Mealer / April 7, 2012

On a closely related topic to my last post, I would like to relate a recent experience I had with

By Loyal Mealer / April 4, 2012

You have all heard the old saying, “Time is money”. Well, obviously, this one is very true. Especially in our

By Loyal Mealer / April 23, 2010

The design goal of many collaboration tools is to reproduce as closely as possible some aspect of the face-to-face meeting

By Loyal Mealer / April 22, 2010

A well-performing virtual team makes effective use of a wide range of collaboration tools. After the various forms of communication

By Loyal Mealer / April 19, 2010

As someone with a great deal of personal experience working in virtual teams and having managed a collaboration technologies research

By Loyal Mealer / July 16, 2009

The posts by Ed Gaeta this last week plus our most recent poll results reminded me of a mental image

By Loyal Mealer / April 1, 2009

One of the more difficult team dynamics project managers must face from time-to-time is conflict. The ‘conflict’ can be project-related

By Loyal Mealer / March 20, 2009

In the first part of this series I talked about how future project leaders may select team members for their

By Loyal Mealer / March 19, 2009

I always enjoy imagining what the future will be like for all sorts of things: transportation, energy, architecture, space exploration,