Five Tips for Winning Your Project Manager Job Interview By Jennifer Whitt When you enter a job interview, it’s important to bring your passion and energy, and not come in with the weight of...
Optimal Decision-Making: Effectively Communicating Information By Claire Schwartz In the last couple of posts, we’ve written about the challenges of providing information for decision-making. From collecting data to converting the data to information that...
Managing a Real Review Process By Carl M. Manello “Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.” –John Steinbeck I have seen the program review process...
Optimal Decision-Making: Turning Data into Actionable Information By Claire Schwartz In my last post, I wrote about collecting data to provide information for decision-making. There is no question that data is where we begin,...
How to Hand Off a Project Successfully By Ben Ferris So, you made it to the end of the project at last. Hopefully you can look back with a lot of satisfaction at how...
Eight Frequently Overlooked Questions for Maximum Project Performance By Richard L Grimes The questions that follow are about issues that may be so subtle they are likely to be overlooked in the daily workings...
Project Management – Technosterone Wars By Terry Rankin “Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” Scott Adams (in Dilbert) After years in the trenches...
A Good Manager Does Not Give Orders By Mike Krutza A manager is a boss, so people think that good management is giving orders. Not at all. A good manager does not give orders...
Why Projects Succeed – Proactive Risk Management By Roger Kastner This article is part of a series, the previous article can be found here. The art and science of Risk Management is so important...
Automating PMO Workflow By Mark Calabrese Lately, I’ve noticed that a lot of organizations are seriously considering purchasing tools to automate their PMO workflow. While there are certainly some good products out there worth...
