Contingency People Planning: Working with the Dark Side
Halloween Bonus: What Do These 3 Tales Have in Common? PM Horror Stories 5, 6, and 7 The Incompetent Estimator
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Project Toolkit Gone Awry
Horror Story No. 4 This collection of project horror stories would not be complete without a tale concerning: MICROSOFT PROJECT
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Buried Alive in a Project Graveyard
Horror Story No. 3: Buried Alive in a Project Graveyard What to do when the answer is 6 ft under:
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Project Doldrums
Horror Story No. 2: Project Doldrums It’s budget time. The team is listless – no enthusiasm for the project as
Stuck in Space and Time
This week, in anticipation of Halloween, I asked several of my project management friends to give me their PM Horror
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Charting a path through uncertainty to reduce team anxiety
My parents live in Louisiana and unfortunately got hit hard by Hurricane Gustav a few weeks ago. Their home was
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Knowledge Management for Virtual (and non-virtual) Teams
Properly managed project documentation is critical for all types and sizes of projects. After all, the project documentation is the
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What is a Risk?
By Frank Mangini Project management and risk management are two sides of the same coin. Projects cannot exist without risk.
The rise (and fall?) of the PMO
Michael Hammer, in his initial article on re-engineering, evaluated the historic patterns of organizing work. His assertion was that in
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Whiteboarding for Virtual Teams
One of the most useful things I have learned leading teams is that pictures are a very effective way to
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Do You Align People or Let Them Align?
By Andrew Meyer People are inherently self organizing. Who did you make friends with when you were a kid on
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