Career Roadblock?
What can you do when you feel like you’ve hit a bump on your project manager career path? Here are my thoughts, and I invite you to add your own comments with advice for this professional.
Project Manager Career Questions
A business student recently interviewed me via email. She is interested in project management and this was part of an assignment to reach out to people via Twitter to interview about what they do and the state of their industry/role. (My kudos to the professor for encouraging students to use new media to interact with people who are already in the field!)
I asked her permission to share the interview with you, I hope you find it helpful. Leave comments on what you agree and do not agree with!
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Project Methodology Madness and Confusion
I received a great question from a subscriber to my PMP Guide newsletter about methodologies and frameworks.
He cited a bountiful list with a question of whether he needs to know all of these in and out:
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Foggy Weather
Let’s continue to LEAD, albeit backwards…The other day I wrote about Delegation. Today, let’s focus on Act and Encourage. Sometimes,
How Many PB&J’s Have You Had?
The other day I had the opportunity to present the opening keynote session at the Lavacon/PMI GNO 2009 Event in
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Road Rules, Not Road Rage
I had the opportunity to speak at the PMI Congress this year. My presentation, called Expected Behaviors for Project Team
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Setting a Baseline
October 8 through 12 I attended the PMI Leadership meeting and after that the PMI Congress. I have actively volunteered
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Project Management in 2025
I and the rest of the PMI New Media council had the opportunity to interview the editors of “Project Management Circa 2025;” David I. Cleland, PhD, PMI Fellow, and Bopaya Bidanda, PhD. This is a collaborative effort by 41 authors to predict the state of various parts of the project management discipline and how it will be implemented 15 years in the future.
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Why Should You Care About Social Media?
I had a great time in Orlando recently for the 2009 PMI North America Global Congress. The PMI New Media
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Is the Enemy Us or Fate? (5 of 5)
Dealing with Ambiguous Situations Ambiguous situations are usually characterized by conflicting signals, signals intertwined with background noise, disconnection between actions
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Is the Enemy Us or Fate? (4 of 5)
Reasoning by Analogy To reason by analogy; recognize a past experience is similar to the current situation, evaluate what did
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