Building Rapport – East and West
Recently one of my clients sent a team of engineers to Japan. For most of the team this was their […]
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A Century of Scientific Management
Did you know Project Management is having a birthday? Well, sort of a birthday. It was 100 years ago, in
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Learn a foreign language in between projects and on the go
Project managers work on various projects, sometimes traveling to various clients’ sites. You juggle many emails, calls, faxes and meetings
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Breaking the myths about language learning as an adult
1. If I just use music and media, may I give up studying grammar and vocabulary and quit my language
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Changing the way you think about foreign language learning
Do you think of foreign language learning as sitting in your boring, stuffy high school Spanish class repeating “Yo me
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Why should project managers speak another language?
Unfortunately, in many countries, especially English-language ones, foreign languages have not been taken seriously by educational institutions, parents and children.
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Give me some team spirit around the world
Time is running and we’re all focused on getting the job done. When working on international projects, the speedometer is
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Experts still research
New advances come up all the time, even in the area of “do-it-yourself”. The combination of the internet, wireless connections, and powerful search engines allow people access to more information with little effort or time investment. Armed with this information, people are more likely to “do-it-themselves”. Unfortunately, the consequences are as bountiful as the information. One of the consequences to small businesses may be a loss of a potential client.
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Project Management Unplugged: The Loneliness of the Long-distance Program Manager
Until recently, it was an article of faith with me that I could not work remotely from my teams and
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Corporate development & finance – Business value from the corporate perspective
Now it is time to explore how these services and capabilities are viewed by the enterprise in terms of true business value and competitive advantage. Corporate development concerns itself with the management arm of the enterprise, setting the strategy and priorities, and ensuring that the enterprise wide investments are aligned with future strategic goals.
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Enterprise Architecture – Linking Teams to the Enterprise
Now that the linkage between the delivery and operations of the service has been established and the PM understands how the service enables a capability, it is time to make the connection between the delivery team and the organization.
I believe that helping the PM understand EA and its links to Business Architecture (BA) will help to crystallize the role that their delivery team plays in the broader scope of the enterprise.
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