Project Managers: Are You Looking for a Red Herring?
Project Managers: Are You Looking for a Red Herring? By Ammar W. Mango Here is a picture to help you find it. For those not familiar with the term, a red herring does not...
Project Managers: Are You Looking for a Red Herring? By Ammar W. Mango Here is a picture to help you find it. For those not familiar with the term, a red herring does not...
Profound “Aha’s” and “Duhhh’s” By Ammar W. Mango Project Management practitioners call them lessons learned. These are lessons from things gone right and things gone not so right on the project. It is easy...
1+2=Business Success: An Empirical Business Success Formula – If There Ever Could Be One! By Ammar W. Mango Have you been to a crowded restaurant and noticed the place next door completely empty? When...
Three Dangerous Routes and a Proposed Safe Route for Dealing with Conflict By Ammar W. Mango There are dangerous yet tempting routes many take in conflict resolution. Here are three dangerous routes to avoid:...
Social Responsibility, Again By Ammar W. Mango It is dangerous when social responsibility becomes an occasional task that we get over with; like a charity dinner, a charitable donation, or a volunteer job. With...
Eleven Project Managers You Do Not Want on Your Project By Ammar W. Mango A good Project Manager is key to project success. We all know of stories of good project managers who were...
The Project Stakeholders: The Role vs the Person By Ammar W. Mango Some prefer to look “objectively” at projects that they focus on the roles people play rather than the persons behind the role....
The Quest for the Technical Project Manager By Ammar W. Mango It is becoming less common but it is still out there; the demand for the technical project manager. To deny the role would...
Organize Projects into Programs and Reap the Rewards of Change By Ammar W. Mango The area of Program Management is still widely misunderstood. Ironically, it is as old if not older than Project Management....
Why Successful Project Management Is So Illusive By Ammar W. Mango A lot of what experts say seems like common sense: “Plan well,” “communicate with team,” “manage your stakeholders,” etc etc. All of it...