I haven’t blogged in 220 days, but I haven’t been idle either. Far from it. What has been going on you might ask? For one, this happened! (More on that later) Here are 10 things I have been up to since this Word of Mouth Marketing post on January 8, 2011: My first big project [...]
Project Management and Project Portfolio Management on Prezi
Today’s post is an excerpt from the article HIRE POWER, published in PM Network on July 1, 2010, and authored by Jenn Danko, a writer based in Chicago, Illinois. The excerpt below was featured in a sidebar entitled A Virtual Foot In the Door. It’s not all about after-work cocktail hours and lunchtime panel discussions [...]
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope you have a great day full of family, friends, football, and food. It’s been a great year and we have a lot to be thankful for. That is my Dad and my awesome nephew Cayden. Dad’s shirt says “This is what a cool dad looks like”. I would have to [...]
I recently came across a Project Management article by Anna Possek on Dice.com. In her article, she describes project management in a unique way. Here is Anna’s take on what qualities are required to be a project manager: The project manager must be: * a diplomat to deal with conflicts between different stakeholders * [...]
I think that communication and relationship management is THE NUMBER 1 driver of project success. Hands down. Scan the tags in my blog, and come across posts like Four Types of People: Know Your Audience and Managing Scope: It’s Really About Trust, Communication, and Delivery. I saw a quote and it reminded me just how [...]
Steve Jobs of Apple used this image to explain their approach to product development, saying: We’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both, to make extremely advanced products from a technology point of view, but also have them be intuitive, easy [...]
The recent recession has been a significant game changer for business in a lot of ways. There were the obvious changes, specific to the recession, such as a significant power shift to the employers. We all watched (and some of us, unfortunately, participated) as hordes of qualified candidates piled out of the workforce and into [...]
I was in a meeting last week discussing project management and client delivery and an executive made the point that the scope of the project is what the client thinks it is – period – and that as consultants it is our job to effectively manage expectations around scope continuously throughout an engagement. Nailing down [...]
First of all, I think that most of the time spent in meetings is a waste of time. I don’t think the actual meetings are a waste of time, since they are an enabler to face-to-face interaction, which is critical, but EVERY meeting should have a set duration, agenda, and a desired outcome before you [...]