Inoculation for the Meetings Plague (#7 in the series A Cynical Perspective on Project Management) By Barry Otterholt Meetings are like a plague. Once they get hold, they’re really difficult to eradicate. The maxim...
You Can’t Manage a Project While Working in It By Ben Snyder, CEO of Systemation No person starts their professional career in the role of project manager. Project managers usually have spent years as...
Managing a Project – When You’re not the Project Manager By Susan Peterson Many of us know the challenges related to being the manager of a project. Probably more of us know the challenges...
Project Management and Firefighting: Are there Lessons to be Shared? By Gary Hamilton, Gareth Byatt, and Jeff Hodgkinson The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans. ~Author Unknown...
Project Managers – What Is the Nature of “Experience”? By Michael L Young Gone are the days where just anybody can be a project manager. Lack of experience can be disastrous for organisations as...
Decisions, Outcomes, and the Project Manager By Thomas Cutting I bolted awake at 5:11 this morning…heart pounding, mind racing…to the sound of rain. Living in Southern California, it isn’t a sound I hear all...
Certifications Don’t Make Project Managers By Richard Morreale The Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Association of Project Management Group (APMG) are two of the biggest reasons that projects fail. They have sold the...
Finding the “Silver Lining” By Susan Peterson Often a project manager and his/her team only hear and read criticism about the level of effectiveness of their work. It’s always easy to criticize. There are...
Attitude vs Aptitude in Project Teams By Kerry Wills I have been on several projects now where there are project resources who are very talented in their particular field but who have a pessimistic...
Why Do Most Projects Fail To Set Guiding Principles? By Hans Danielsson During my career I have been part of a large number of projects, from small simple ones to large $100M+ complex projects...
