Stakeholder Management (or the Importance of Being in Charge) By Diane Ellis I turned down a job just recently. Oh sure – the deadline was impossible, there weren’t enough people (or the right type...
Convincing Management That Context Switching Is a Bad Idea By Johanna Rothman The last few times I’ve taught project management, I’ve explained that multi-project context switching wastes time. The project managers agree with me....
Project Management Activities By Meade Rubenstein When you start a new job, you focus on where you’re sitting, who you’re working with, what your boss expects from you and how you can accomplish your...
Learning From Lessons Learned By Susan Peterson Every part of the planet has its challenges with the ravages of nature. Whether it be flood, fire, severe storms, or other disasters, each human response effort...
The PMBOK and the Competing Project Constraints By Thomas Cutting Following last article about the project management triangle, one of my project management co-conspirators dropped me a note informing me that the triple constraint...
Ambushed! Some Thoughts on Protecting Your Project Management Career By Meade Rubenstein Happily walking to your meeting not expecting anything outside of some boredom and quality doodling time….then they strike! Ballistic questions, explosive statements...
A Musing on Project Progress: Killing False Confidence By Thomas Cutting You leave for your flight well ahead of schedule. Traffic is light and you arrive, unhurried, at the airport. Strolling up to the...
Is an ERP Implementation Project Just a Project? By Vjekoslav Babić “Software projects are no different from other projects”. This statement is being repeated over and over at project management courses and seminars, even...
The Positive Side of Scope Creep By Meade Rubenstein You often hear complaints from developers and project managers about scope creep in a project. This is often pointed to as the #1 cause of...
Agile Through the Waterfall By Sonal Shah Many organizations have adopted Agile practices into their development methodologies and they have proved to be successful for the organization as a whole. There also are many...
