Three Levels of Program Management
Three levels that organize practice of Program Management
Monitoring and Controlling
Advice for Program Managers: 6-Quantified Agile for Hardware
Applying Agile methodologies to Programs that include hardware development.
Advice for Program Managers: 5-PMO Role
PMO behavior to achieve Program Management effectiveness specialized to its environment managing PM practices in the organization, including PM development and advancement and connection with organizational management.
Advice for Program Managers: 4-Program Management Specialization: System Programs Phased Methodology
PM Best Practices and Core Program Structure for Hybrid integrated programs using Phased HW – Agile SW, mixed-technologies. Full-Program agility via automated plan tools with continuous plan update.
Advice for Program Managers: 3-Program Management Career Skills
Career path thinking for Program Managers including skills and behaviors that develop Program Manager capabilities and leadership and pave the way toward advancement.
Advice for Program Managers: 2-Program Management Career Path
Describes career path thinking for Program Managers including sourcing, progression, advancement, and connection with organizational management.
Advice for Program Managers: 1-Program Management Opportunity
Introduces a vision and framework for development of Program Managers and PMO, for Program Management specialization to its environment, and for improved effectiveness and integration of PM with organization operational management.
This Month’s Agile Interview Corner Features Alexander Frumkin Talking About Psychological Safety
This interview was conducted and written by SVPM Scrum Team program volunteers, Katie Karp and Meghana Panth. Executive Editor, Donald …
Database Platforms for Program Management Logistics
I’ve released several new distributions of PowerOpI Tools, each focusing on a different Database platform: PowerQueryTool, SQLServerTool, and MSAccessTool. PowerQueryTool …
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Quantitative Management
As Marcus Lemonis (CNBC “The Profit“) says, “If you don’t know your numbers, you don’t know your business”. There are …
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Do You Recognize The 5 Early Warning Signs of Project Failure?
Knowing when things are starting to go in the wrong direction is what separates a good PM from a great …
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Signs that you are a micro-manager
This client’s issue was that she continually put in over 10 hours a day in a draining work environment. Although she had desires to do other hobbies and side businesses, she was too exhausted to do anything about those other dreams. She self-diagnosed herself as having no follow-through, although at the office – she had lots of follow-through.
After hearing her story, I suggested that she was actually micromanaging her people too much. This was taking her time away from the items she really wanted to accomplish as well as zapping all her energy. Her knee-jerk reaction was that she was not a micro-manager.
7 Public Speaking Tips for Introverts
Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose – author of the business and time management books TimePeace: Making peace with time …
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How do companies prevent remote workers from feeling “left out”?
I recently received the following question: How do companies prevent remote workers from feeling “left out”? I’m not a fan …
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5 Ways to Get That Raise
Have this ever happened to you? You get a great performance review; they are very pleased with your work; they say they would like to give you a raise — BUT, due to budget problems, it is not possible at that time. What do you do to succeed?
The most convincing reason to change from waterfall to agile
Given virtually no one on product teams believes in waterfall – even those using waterfall (see my last post on …
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Project Management at 30 Below — the AGO project cycle, Part 3
So what are the lessons learned that project managers can take for a project like this? When I asked Andy …
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Project Management at 30 Below — the AGO project cycle, Part 2
Once the planning and preparation are complete, getting to an Automatic Geophysical Observatory (AGO) site can seem like a project …
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