How to Introduce Process Improvements Successfully
Does your team seem to be allergic to process? Have you been trying to implement project management best practices and
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human-factors
The PM as saleperson?
I was recently working with some relatively young (well, pretty much everyone seems to be younger these days) software developers
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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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Five Whys for Managing Project Dynamics
Five Whys provides a structured yet simple approach to solving problems as they occur during a project and can provide a
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The Power of Memory in Project Management
In a recent project team meeting we were reviewing an Ishikawa diagram and root cause analysis as a means to determine the
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The POO Code, Chapter Six
Much as he did earlier in his career, Proman was now at another crossroad. The large program had just concluded.
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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner…
Thanksgiving at our house is a family affair. Everyone from the youngsters to the elders all come together under a
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The Key to Successful Cross-functional Collaboration
Quick: what’s the biggest challenge in cross-functional collaboration? Bing! Yes, “building trusting, open relationships” is correct! Does that sound too
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Project Management and Culture
A German colleague once commented (during a lager-filled post-project celebration) about how different German and US project management looked to
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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
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