Career Roadblock?
What can you do when you feel like you’ve hit a bump on your project manager career path? Here are my thoughts, and I invite you to add your own comments with advice for this professional.
Miscellaneous
Project Manager Career Questions
A business student recently interviewed me via email. She is interested in project management and this was part of an assignment to reach out to people via Twitter to interview about what they do and the state of their industry/role. (My kudos to the professor for encouraging students to use new media to interact with people who are already in the field!)
I asked her permission to share the interview with you, I hope you find it helpful. Leave comments on what you agree and do not agree with!
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Project Methodology Madness and Confusion
I received a great question from a subscriber to my PMP Guide newsletter about methodologies and frameworks.
He cited a bountiful list with a question of whether he needs to know all of these in and out:
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Setting a Baseline
October 8 through 12 I attended the PMI Leadership meeting and after that the PMI Congress. I have actively volunteered
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Project Management in 2025
I and the rest of the PMI New Media council had the opportunity to interview the editors of “Project Management Circa 2025;” David I. Cleland, PhD, PMI Fellow, and Bopaya Bidanda, PhD. This is a collaborative effort by 41 authors to predict the state of various parts of the project management discipline and how it will be implemented 15 years in the future.
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Is the Enemy Us or Fate? (4 of 5)
Reasoning by Analogy To reason by analogy; recognize a past experience is similar to the current situation, evaluate what did
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Is the Enemy Us or Fate? (3 of 5)
Mental Frames A mental framework is the model we use to simplify the complex and ambiguous world around us; it
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Is the Enemy Us or Fate? (2 of 5)
Cognitive Biases A totally rational person (enter Mr. Spock) would collect a lot of information, analyze many alternatives and only
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Risk Register – Short & Sweet or Extensive & Complete?
Another highlight (IMHO) of the Risk Symposium was Eldon F. Jones’ presentation on “Risk Register – What is it and
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Latest Thoughts in Risk Management (or What I Learned from going to the Risk Symposium)
Having just attended the well-attended PMI Risk Symposium a couple of weeks ago, this topic is so appropriate for our
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Release Your Creative Self
Today, it’s all about doing things differently and doing different things. Did you know Google runs 50 to 200 search
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