It’s Never Been Easier To Stay Close To Your Customers
If you are managing a project to deliver a new product or service, you’ll be making lots of decisions. If […]
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Monitoring and Controlling
Stakeholder Management Tools
Nope. There’s just no way around it. You are going to have to work with people. Even if you are
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Contingency Plan – Focusing on Business Value
Last time, I talked about status reporting, which is commonly required but whose power as a multitool is often overlooked.
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The Project Manager’s Multitool: The Status Report
Status reports (or whatever your particular methodological school calls them) are frequently maligned – c.f. “TPS Reports” in the movie
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Simple Tools, Advanced Users
When you first start out as a professional project manager, you typically have had some informal project management experience as
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Done or Done Done?
A common culprit behind schedule slips is adding up estimates for building subunits and not accounting for verification and integration.
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Perfecting versus perfection.
We’ve all heard the groan: “We have an aggressive schedule to meet.” The fact is, it’s not the “schedule” timeline that is aggressive; rather, it’s what we choose to fit into it. Adopting an attitude of progress refinement (perfecting over perfection) with the confidence percentage strategy helps reduce this tension between promised and actually delivered tasks.
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Chop Chop, Hurry Up and Create!
How do you schedule innovation? A common conflict, even in a well planned and organized environment is marketing’s request for
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The Complete Project Manager – Change Management
Project leaders do not like change any more than followers do unless, of course, it is their idea. Change is
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What remote managers need to know about staying on top of remote and global employees.
Last article we discussed some of the down-side to working remotely (either from home or from an off-site office). We discussed some techniques an employee can stay in the spotlight, even when they are not located in the same site as their reporting manager, cohorts or those making the salary decisions. Today, we’ll cover the challenges and solutions from the managerial position.
A primary concern for a manager is : as your team starts to grow apart in location, how do I assure the team doesn’t also “grow apart as a team”. How does one keep a cohesive workforce across both distance and time zones?
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Strategy Execution through Project Success
– a case for project metrics. The right metric, driving the right behavior aligned with the right strategy. Think of
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