Motivating Your Team
Just about every project management job description entails “motivating people who do not report to you”. It’s clearly important, but […]
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Leadership
Inspire…Challenge…Transform: some definitely do it all!
Phil Messina, a project manager at HP, volunteered to document the PMI Norcal Symposium 2008. Here is his report. Randy
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Culture of Attrition vs. Culture of Retention
I recently worked for two very different companies: Company A, a huge, global company with a heavy reliance on contractors;
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Everything you know about project management is wrong
To someone else. Why? Some project managers accidentally stumble into the profession. Others enter the field on purpose. Both groups
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Project Progress Trend Analysis
If you are like most project managers, you wish you had a better real-time handle on the progress of your
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A Letter to Executives
In the PMI NorCal Symposium 2008 just concluded at Stanford University, Esteri Hinman, a Capability Owner at Intel’s Corporate Platform
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Mexican Project Management
I recently spent 4 days working in Mexico for the first time. Eye-eye-eye! What a place! There wasn’t a Taco
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Do You Know Where Your Sponsor Is?
Q: I am an architect in an architectural firm with the title of project manager. I can only assume that
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Multi-Tasking in Project Meetings
In my many years in the technology industry, I’ve spent thousands of hours in meetings, most of them as boring
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Project Managers get no respect!
“My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly
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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
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