What is a project manager that values their sanity and ability to deliver value to do? We want to be available, but we also need to do the work. If we are going to consistently deliver successfully, we need a strategy.
PMI is announcing its call for volunteers for those who would like to participate in the development of the PMBOK® Guide—Seventh Edition. We are now looking for volunteers to be part of both the Development Team and Review Team for the latest edition.
Leading remote teams requires an additional level of management—and using different skills than what you would use with onsite/co-located teams. Having this knowledge and ability will ensure a successful end result to your project.
Project managers only succeed when their teams succeed, but what does that mean for how the PM manages relationships with individual team members? Read about the biggest mistake that new project managers make.
The temporary, unique nature of the project management environment increases the challenges of management and its leadership function because the project manager typically has little to no authority or asset ownership. This dynamic places a premium on influence-based leadership. So how does a project manager develop an influence-based leadership style? By examining an environment extremely similar to the project management environment - the military environment!
By Ramiro Rodrigues Recently, an acquaintance pointed out to me that the projects environment is susceptible to chaos. In his view, all it takes is a lack of effective leadership. If lead ...
Insurance is something we think about naturally for our homes, cars and even our lives. But should you be considering it on your project too? Insurance is a risk response strategy to help you mitig ...
Solar cell powered mini machines. What do you think how they will be used in the real world? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loHzoeFP9Io ...
Whats your most productive time of day? ...
Sometimes deliverables shift and scope needs to be expanded. How often do you expand the scope of existing/approved project? Every other project? Every 100th project? Never? ...
Have you ever come across SME’s, sponsors, executives or team members who purposely withhold details relevant to the success of a project? What are their motives for stating their knowledge on a give ...
John Farlik, a senior IT project manager for AAA of the Carolinas, loves enabling teams to achieve new levels of success, which requires much more than just being a "task master" or "he ...
Want to get involved? Apply now to participate in the development of the PMBOK® Guide—Seventh Edition. We are now looking for volunteers to be part of both the Development Te ...
At the 2019 North American Global Scrum Gathering, I had a chance to sit down with Ilker Demirel to talk about his involvement with The Leadership Gift Program and how it has transformed his life and ...
Cloud computing is accelerating its proliferation as the new decade approaches. This article focuses on the expansion of new “as a service” offerings, new tools and new terminology that are arriving on the scene.
Project leaders should seek feedback from their teams, and soon they'll be seeking it from you. When it's done with positive intentions, the full potential of teams can be unleashed, and projects prosper.
Flexible and responsive strategic planning is the key to sustainable organizational success. But adaptive planning can't deliver on its promised benefits until organizations commit to a top-down, lightweight approach; otherwise it's just traditional planning rushing to go nowhere.
To keep pace with the evolving state of the project management profession, the accelerated ability to deliver projects at the pace of business change is no option—and that puts PMs at center stage.
Larger projects bring more human complexities, taking people management to a new scale. The use of the no-collar workforce for routine project management jobs actually frees up the time—and can increase the involvement—for project managers and PMO team members to focus on team management.
The article is devoted to the underlying mathematical concepts of earned value: linear function, Cartesian coordinates and tangent. The EV visualization named “budget square” is derived from these concepts—and helps us master the earned value concept for both certification and practical needs.
Ethics violations and dishonesty have led to the downfall of a number of mighty companies and their high-profile leaders. What are the nuances of the highest ethical standards?
The webinar How to be a Chameleon in Your Project: Changing Your Management Style to Lead a Successful Project received so much feedback, we didn’t have time to cover everything! The discussion continued afterward, and here Emily covers some additional questions and answers that came out of her presentation.
This webinar explores where we've been, what's in play right now and what we should expect—and hope for—from our project management software in the future.
In this webinar you will learn the purpose and use of standards, and how they form the basis of the profession and practice of project, program, and portfolio management. Standards are used to codify professional knowledge, to normalize practices in the field, and to provide practitioners with a toolbox of processes and approaches that can be applied to the project. Standards are developed by credible, recognized bodies, in particular by ISO and by PMI. This presentation will discuss the process by which standards are developed in an open, consensus-based manner, and you will learn how you can get involved in the development of standards at PMI and at the national and international level.
Agile is a continuous improvement process in itself, but at the enterprise level, most of the Agile frameworks can’t be used for process improvement because the business area has very limited room for agility due to strong governance requirements or because of the culture and strong resistance to change. Process Improvement is a very well defined discipline that has tools and metrics that can easily be used to measure the benefits delivered by transition to Agile. This webinar presents some options for improving processes that have an Agile component but are not entirely Agile.
Less than half of organizations consistently report high strategic alignment in their project management practices despite established research linking business success to strategic alignment in projects. Regulatory implementation programs, in particular, are susceptible to being operationally (as opposed to strategically) managed with the sole focus on “getting the job done”.
Change is necessary because organizations are struggling with the new demands and challenges of complexity. This webinar looks at how Project Management can be the engine of change.
The world is becoming a difficult place to work as a Project Manager. We're working globally, across time zones and cultures, with new technology, and industries and projects are losing money at a staggering rate. We need to adapt.
Graf von Moltke was a Prussian Field Marshal who developed a rather genius, and simple, method to stack up his generals based on intelligence and initiative (or lack thereof.) The smart & lazy rose to the top because they made the right thing happen, at the right time and found the easiest way to do so. Marshal your projects (pun intended) and take control of your life!
“A bruise is a lesson and each lesson makes us better” – Arya Stark The HBO series, Game of Thrones, provides a project manager with lots of insights and lessons to consider.
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