Simplify the Job
Simplify the Job By Barry Otterholt The Project Manager’s job is far more complicated than it needs to be. There are far fewer skilled project managers in the workplace than complex projects that require...
Category: Project Management Musings
Using Project Management to Survive Personal Disaster
Using Project Management to Survive Personal Disaster By Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, Founder, Cheetah Learning Life throws us all curve balls. From needing to care for someone you love to dealing with personal crises or...
Project Management Can Be Applied Anywhere – An Everyday Analogy
Project Management Can Be Applied Anywhere – An Everyday Analogy By Chris Ramsay I lately figured out a good way to determine if someone has decent project management skills (and no, this is not...
Passing the Baton: Project Management Lessons In Regret
Passing the Baton: Project Management Lessons In Regret By Terry Little, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) I have led six major defense acquisition programs during my civil service career. For most of those,...
My Theory on Why IT Projects Fail
My Theory on Why IT Projects Fail By Jorge Dominguez The number of failed IT projects ranges in the 60% to 80%. But, what constitute a failed project? Why do they fail? They are...
The Whac-a-Mole Model of Bad Project Management
The Whac-a-Mole Model of Bad Project Management By Barry Shore, Ph.D. The investigation of the Challenger shuttle disaster initially focused on an “O” ring that failed shortly after takeoff. But a search for the...
A Handy List of Project Management Excuses
A Handy List of Project Management Excuses By Andrew Meyer In the interests of status reporting efficiency, please use the following list of excuses when you’ve said you’ll have no problem completing something, which...
Independence in a Project Management Office
Independence in a Project Management Office By Derry Simmel, PMP, MBA, FLMI Within almost all companies, individual departments tend to be somewhat self-centered. This is not necessarily bad, since the department exists to perform...
The Top Five Reasons Project Managers Fail
The Top Five Reasons Project Managers Fail By Mark Hopkins Why do Projects Fail? In the world of Project Management especially Healthcare, I have seen all to many Project Managers fail. So I have...
When Project Management Methodology Matters More Than Project Success
When Project Management Methodology Matters More Than Project Success By Kailash Awati Many organisations believe (hope?) that strict adherence to a project management methodology guarantees project success. These unfortunates have been blinded by the...
