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Typical oversight areas in Project Management

efficiency, stated Peter Drucker, is doing the thing right, but effectiveness is doing the right thing – through enabling others […]

Managing projects, as I keep repeating, is about managing people and problems. I have a great example of a manager

I serve on the board of an organization seeking grant funds. They formed a committee. The committee meets weekly and

My ex-husband always made us late for appointments because he’d estimate time “as the crow flies” – not ever taking

Tonight in a restaurant, we were charged an extra dollar for “blackening” the fish. The waitress told us (oops, to

It seems to me that too many High Tech companies have become so bureaucratic that the processes and meetings and

Do you recognize that your current project is late, but you haven’t taken steps necessary to rescue it, except for

Does your organization only give lip service the product development life cycle and not adequately provide requirements before design and

Has requirements creep become a requirements stampede in your organization? This is a major pain point for project management professionals;

Is your Vice President ambitious and overwhelming your department with new project work? I understand the frustration of having an

Is everything on your project is in flux; new users, new stakeholders, and they have new project priorities? Argghhhh. Yesterday