Making Change Control Easy By Andrea Brockmeier If you struggle with a lack of sustained discipline in your project change control practice, one opportunity may be to clarify the distinction between controlling performance and...
In Product Development, Project Management Builds on Process By George Ellis I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at project management tools and some of them are very cool. Tons of collaboration. Great...
How Are We Feeling Today? By Russell Whitworth The concept of a “project health check” is well known, and yet not widely applied. Which is strange, because in my experience it is one of...
Common Project Manager Mistakes: #1 Limiting Stakeholders By Samuel T. Brown, III, PMP, Global Knowledge Course Director and Instructor According to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK® Guide)-Fifth Edition, Project...
The Charter Document – Scope By Robin Vysma The charter is the document you have to do before you agree to begin a project. It might be a bound glossy publication with covers and...
Coaching Lessons from Change Management By Kiron D. Bondale Dr. Kotter’s eight-stage process provides a whole lifecycle model for implementing successful transformational change. But could it also be applied to coaching for performance and...
Change: Before, During, After By Christian Bisson When planning to move forward with a change that will impact your colleagues, it is important to remember that you must manage what comes before the change,...
Risk Management… The What, Why, and How By Michael Stanleigh What Is Risk Management? Risk Management is the process of identifying, analyzing and responding to risk factors throughout the life of a project and...
Scrum Methodology – Agile Software Methodologies By John Nelson In our last post, we discussed Agile, its origins, basic concepts, and how it fits into the organization. While we often speak of Agile generically,...
The Fallacy of Man Hours By Tim Bryce I’ve never been comfortable with the concept of “Man Hours,” not that it’s a gender issue, but rather it implies ignorance of how time is used...
