Category: Project Management Musings
Top Led Failures – Ailment #1 Leading to Project Failure (#3 in the series Decoding the DNA of Failed Technology Projects) By Robert Goatham Top led failures occur when an organization’s Senior Management makes...
The Ailments behind Project Failure (#2 in the series Decoding the DNA of Failed Technology Projects) By Robert Goatham Ineffective decision making, dysfunctional decision making and the problems that inhibit effective communications are the...
The Perils of Being a Good Project Manager By Susan Peterson What could possibly be wrong with being a good project manager? After all, we joined PMI so that we could learn more about...
The Ideal Project Manager Specification By Richard Morreale The following provides the ideal project manager specification including general requirements they must meet along with the ‘Hard Skills’, the ‘Soft Skills’, the attitudes and the...
Decoding the DNA of Failed Technology Projects – Introduction (#1 in the series Decoding the DNA of Failed Technology Projects) By Robert Goatham Sequencing of the human genome is a marvel that has allowed...
Killing Political Projects By Johanna Rothman Recently, we talked about avoiding dead projects. Now it’s time to talk about the hardest project category: the political project. Killing political projects is difficult, because it’s not...
Project Management Primer: Final Thoughts (#54 in the Hut A Project Management Primer) By Nick Jenkins Project management can be a difficult and thankless task. When things go wrong you shoulder the blame and...
Bring Energy to Your Project By Pawel Brodzinski It’s a typical situation when after weeks or months of working on a project energy is systematically drained from the project team. The initial enthusiasm is...
Why Projects Are Late By Barry Otterholt There are as many reasons for projects being late as there are dimensions to the human personality, since the reasons ultimately stem from human perception and the...
The Project Manager Does Not Do The Work By Jorge Dominguez We all know that the PM is responsible for the outcome of the project. It is very easy to loose sight of why...