Marketing your project
Marketing your project By Craig Brown Managing people through change is one of the hardest but most important things a corporate/IT project must do. People naturally snap back to their previous work practices. Kurt...
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A Million Wrong Answers
A Million Wrong Answers By James Barlow The human mind loves a dichotomy – a simple division into halves or pairs. We respond easily to questions with yes or no answers; our courts deliver...
Product management vs. Project management
Product management vs. Project management By Jeff Lash If you want to be a bad product manager, confuse product management with project management. The words are so close because the two concepts are so...
How Important Are Project Objectives?
How Important Are Project Objectives? By Keith Mathis – PM Expert Live Objectives must support the project goal’s mission. Interviews set the tone for what is coming down the pipeline with your project. You...
Four views on project success
Four views on project success By Craig Brown I have skimmed the topic of project success a few times but have never got into the meat of the topic. Here I am framing some...
An Outsourced Model
An Outsourced Model By Gina Lijoi Smaller interactive agencies seem to be trending towards more precise specialization. This means they are honing their internal skills to become subject matter experts in a particular space....
7 Steps to Overcome Misperceptions
7 Steps to Overcome Misperceptions By Thomas Cutting People living in the LA area are big on perception. Billy Crystal used to say, “It is better to look marvelous than to feel marvelous.” Sometimes...
How do you avoid burnout?
How do you avoid burnout? By Diana Lindstrom As project managers, we often find ourselves looking into the deep, dark hole of burnout. What is burnout? Burnout is the state of mind where we...
Team Solving: The Under Utilized Power
Team Solving: The Under Utilized Power By Mike Griffiths All projects face problems, but fortunately your team members have the best solutions. Projects rarely go exactly to plan; they have a nasty habit of...
The High Cost of Employee Turnover Among Project Managers
The High Cost of Employee Turnover Among Project Managers By Craig Ruvere Imagine for a moment this scenario from a frustrated Senior Manager of a large pharmaceutical organization: “Our organization has experienced a large...
