What makes product teams great? What if you were able to name just five things that: if you don’t do them, you have just a 2% chance of high level team performance if you do all of them, you have …
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Project Managers as Project Marketers Seasoned project managers understand that a successful project never results from a single endeavor. Instead, it takes a myriad of cumulative and often-subtle accomplishments to bring even the simplest project to completion. Consistent communication with …
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The Electrical Audit Process – PART I Co-Authors: Dr. Shree Nanguneri and Mr. Rao. G Electrical Equipment Audit Abstract Organizations throughout the world invest time, energy, and efforts to comply with standards in different areas such as ISO, OSHA, and other areas. …
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Technologists love intricate mechanisms. That’s why many of us, as kids, took things apart, and some of us even put them back together again. In my training as an engineer, I enjoyed learning how mechanical, electrical and chemical things worked. …
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I have great respect for software developers. Because software is abstract, invisible and runs at extreme speeds, the people who are good at building it have to possess a particular talent at visualization and a willingness to use complex tools. …
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I’ve graduated through the ranks from being a team contributor to becoming the project manager. I didn’t graduate to this level because of some superhuman capability, often times its because I inherited it. In my experience and as far as …
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Many of the strategies used in games can be effectively translated to business and professional navigation. Find out how….
This is Laura Lee Rose, a business and life coach that specializes in professional development, time management, project management and work-life balance strategies. In my GoTo Academy: Soft Skill Tools for the GoTo Professional continuous online coaching series, I go …
If you can drive, you can understand project managing. Read More »
About a year ago, I posted a project management blog called Do Affirmations and Quotes Work for You?. It was based on my first-hand observations and shared how quotes and affirmations could be a useful and self-reflective tool in the …
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Role of the VPE in Management The role of the VPE has two essential tasks: (1) to build and direct an efficient organization that can do the work and to which operational responsibility can be delegated, and (2) manage the …
Leadership, Management, and Integrity – the VPE Perspective Read More »
Designing, implementing and integrating major IT systems has numerous pitfalls that don’t appear, for example, in building construction. People who are responsible for delivering major IT projects – or are paying for one – need to be aware of what …
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Your online reputation score is your new credit score … Today, I’d like to share with you what I’ve learned about the care and maintenance of your on-line reputation; in essence, how the on-line “virtual you” can greatly impact the …
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Earlier this week, I posted a blog called Are You Keeping Track of Being Tracked (Part 1). It is basically a beginner’s guide to exploring how more than 200 data collection companies and ad networks are using about 600 different …
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Last week, I decided to review my professional social networks to figure out which ones to keep and which ones to release. This once-a-year task was straightforward and at the end of the process, I luxuriated in the satisfying …
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Status meetings have a tendency to get a bad reputation. Many can feel that spending anywhere from a half-hour to an hour just talking about project status when there is *real* work to be done is a major waste of …
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There are two types of project managers in the profession — those who expect tools and methodology to automate their work for them, and those who leverage tools and methodology to help them do their work. Those in the first …
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One of our most basic tools for regaining control of a project that is at risk is the deliverables list or deliverables-based work breakdown structure. Not a task list, but the most basic list of what the project is chartered …
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I was mountain biking recently along a lovely canyon path when I rounded a curve and suddenly found myself on a tricky bit of trail. I realized (or so my brain told me) that if I didn’t keep moving I …
Focus on the path to the goal, not on the hazards Read More »
How do you evaluate how well a team is functioning? A key indicator is energy. Energy is a quality of the interactions going on in the room the team is working in, a quality that you feel when you’re in …
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This article is about attention and focus, in your own life and the life of the teams you lead. Attention is a precious commodity, for you, for people you manage and for teams you lead. Here’s what journalist and author …
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