What is an Interim Manager?
What is an Interim Manager? By Harley Lovegrove I define an interim manager as someone who has been hired to carry out an assignment that lasts for a predefined length of time and that...
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The Project Organization and Management By Exception
The Project Organization and Management By Exception By David Litten Getting the project team set up right relies upon you using Management By Exception One of the key principles for project management success is...
The Purposes and Methods of Practical Project Categorization – Part VI – Multi-dimensional Classification of Projects
The Purposes and Methods of Practical Project Categorization – Part VI – Multi-dimensional Classification of Projects (#6 in the series The Purposes and Methods of Practical Project Categorization) By Dr.Russell Archibald Within each agreed...
Interest In Project Management Is On The Rise
Interest In Project Management Is On The Rise By Kevin Archbold Over the past ten years, the US-based Project Management Institute has grown from around 25,000 members to almost 250,000. This ten-fold increase represents...
3 Great Knowledge Management tools for Project Managers
3 Great Knowledge Management tools for Project Managers By Craig Brown A couple of Project Management academics, Besner and Hobbes (2006) ran a survey on processes and tools that project management practitioners use with...
Lessons Learned from Teaching Project Management
Lessons Learned from Teaching Project Management By Scott R. Coplan Project management methodologies offer valuable theoretical frameworks. Unfortunately, a practitioner can spend more time deciphering these methodologies than putting them to practical use. I...
Can a Project Manager not be a Subject Matter Expert?
Can a Project Manager not be a Subject Matter Expert? By Meade Rubenstein Can a Project Manager NOT understand the underlying ‘subject’ that she/he is managing? If you ask a typical PM looking for...
Why are you a Project Manager?
Why are you a Project Manager? By Diana Lindstrom Are you one of the millions of “accidental” project managers? You were assigned a project and told when it has to be complete? No budget....
Persuasion and Perception
Persuasion and Perception By James Barlow Every year, between forty and seventy percent of all corporations and public sector bodies attempt to make strategic change. Overwhelmingly, formal projects are the preferred structure used to...
Reasons Why Projects Fail
Reasons Why Projects Fail By Tom Carlos (PMP) In a perfect world, every project would be “on time and within budget.” But reality (especially the proven statistics) tells a very different story. It’s not...
