The Mighty Checklist: A Forgotten Tool for Flexibility
By Jerry Manas How many times have we seen PMOs create intricate processes and templates, only to find that there […]
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Knotty, knotty project!
By Rich Maltzman Living near Boston (and Cambridge) Massachusetts in the USA, I’m right nearby Harvard University (perhaps you’ve heard
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False Confidence Killers
By Thomas Cutting, PMP You leave for your flight well ahead of schedule. Traffic is light and you arrive, unhurried,
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Check these four items before analyzing your budget numbers
As a project manager, you must understand these four budget items. If you do not recognize and understand them it is possible (even likely) that you will not properly understand your budget status and you may make wrong decisions based on these misunderstanding.
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Adventures in Team Building
Have you ever been to a “team building” event that felt like work? You’re there because you have to be,
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Reverse-Engineering Requirements?
By Josh Nankivel Fellow blogger Craig Brown over at Better Projects asked “Why reverse engineer requirements?” in a recent post.Interesting
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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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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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