Category: Miscellaneous

Validating PMI Board Participation By Ray W. Frohnhoefer Back around 2003, before PMI had an online registry of PMI credential holders, a recruiter contacted me as a local Board member to help them determine...

Top 10 Issues for Project Managers By Robert Kelly For this week’s article, I tapped into a dozen project managers representing approximately 150 years of experience with companies such as HP, IBM, Schering-Plough (now...

The Trouble with Continuous Multi-tasking, and How to Avoid It By Gary Hamilton, Gareth Byatt, and Jeff Hodgkinson “To do two things at once is to do neither” – Publilius Syrus. Picture the following...

Rethinking Project Success and Failure By Bruce McGraw I think we have an issue in the field of project management. Defining project success and failure only in terms of on-time and on-budget performance is...

Top 10 Project Management Challenges By Claudia Vandermilt Project Management Challenges Within Corporate Projects Undefined Goals: When goals are not clearly identified, it is impossible for the team to meet them. And, since upper...

Managing Project Trade-offs By Michael Stanleigh Dear Project Coach: I am struggling with a project where I am told that I must work within the defined scope and budget. As well, I have a...

The Cultural Context of Organizations By Martin Hahn An organization does not exist in a vacuum. Any group of people-a business, hospital, charitable group, or government agency-is in part shaped by the society in...

Systems Thinking in Project Management By Michael D. Taylor Most project managers tend to think only conventionally when managing projects. This means that they begin from a given project goal, plan the project to...

How Can I Have the Responsibility Without the Authority? By Mark L. Reed By far, the question I am most often asked has always been, “How can I get my project team to actually...