How is project management like conducting an orchestra? By Diana Lindstrom Conductors of great symphony orchestras do not play every musical instrument; yet through leadership the ultimate production is an expressive and unified combination...
Project Managers vs. Executives – Part 1 – or What do the Dumb-dumbs in the executive offices know? (#1 in the series Project Managers vs. Executives) By Diana Lindstrom As project managers, we know...
How do you avoid burnout? By Diana Lindstrom As project managers, we often find ourselves looking into the deep, dark hole of burnout. What is burnout? Burnout is the state of mind where we...
Strategic Needs Analysis By Craig Brown Strategic Needs Analysis (SNA) is a pre-design activity that usually uses a workshop setting to focus stakeholder involvement in proposing and identifying a range of strategic options for...
Team Solving: The Under Utilized Power By Mike Griffiths All projects face problems, but fortunately your team members have the best solutions. Projects rarely go exactly to plan; they have a nasty habit of...
Managing Scope By Craig Brown In project management, scope is the sum total of all projects products and their features. Scope can also mean the totality of work to be done by the project...
Sharing Accountability With Your Team By Gina Lijoi So – your team has been working on an intense project for a your most important client. Launch is scheduled to coincide with an extensive national...
The True Role of a PM on Agile Projects By Mike Griffiths So, what does the PM do on agile projects? If the team self organizes and selects their own work from the prioritized...
Making Change Happen By Kevin Dwyer Seventy percent of all change management projects are considered to be failures. The critical factors for change management success or failure are fairly simple. The first factor is...
Who Needs Risk Management? – Part 2 – Risk – A combination of Art and Belief By Adrian Abramovici Yes, there are lots of horror stories about projects run without risk mitigation and their...
