Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:07:14 GMT https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blogs/653821/the-inquisitive-project-manager This blog explores the personal side of project management, including our daily ups and downs, and the different styles that make each PM unique around the world. How do we all contribute to the growing Project Economy? This blog will take an intimate look at these perspectives. https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/68665/navigating-from-a-ba-to-senior-ba-role Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:03:41 GMT As an Intermediate Business Analyst do you feel cabin, cribbed, confined in your role? Do you feel at a point of stagnation and frustration? Perhaps you need a change? One way for effective change is to shift your gears and navigate your way to a Senior Business Analyst role. To become a Senio... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/68664/how-the-big-4-impact-our-personal-and-professional-lives Wed, 24 Mar 2021 02:35:31 GMT I once heard a Toronto entrepreneur for the Rogers Communication company give a speech about choice in the marketplace. He said customers make choices on what they can buy, but those choices are provided by the organizations selling those products. In other words, "a customer's choice"... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/68662/the-impact-of-ai-on-the-ba-role Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:46:13 GMT When I started teaching VoiceXML at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada years ago, I didn't realize I was embarking on a 4 year teaching career in AI. VoiceXML is a natural language speech recognition software, which involves automated voice communications. It's a feature-rich computer languag... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/67874/effective-communication-is-essential-for-project-success Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:41:26 GMT On a project, especially an IT project, the Project Manager (PM), the Business Analyst (BA) and the stakeholders each complement one another. The relationship between these roles is a critical one on the engagement of projects. Each role really needs to spell out to one another what they need and wa... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/66932/organizational-culture-within-the-walt-disney-company Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:03:41 GMT To be sustainable does your own company culture need to change? How? Perhaps Walt Disney expressed it best when he said "It's kind of fun to do the impossible.". The Disney corporation has managed to be sustainable within it's organizational culture, by doing what might appear a... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/66911/analyzing-prospective-change-within-an-organization--using-swot-and-pestle Mon, 16 Nov 2020 07:48:47 GMT There are many ways to analyze an organization or business. For a Business Analyst it is best to focus on a purpose and ask why you need to analyze a company. Being able to understand the cultural characteristics that comprise a company, where it stands in the marketplace, who its competitors a... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/66521/are-leaders-born-or-are-they-made- Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:47:43 GMT Are leaders born or are they made? That's a tough question, and probably as old as time itself. It's like wondering what came first, the chicken or the egg. I'd have to say there are some inherent traits that one needs to be a good leader, but many of these skills can be learned. If one ... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/66520/the-making-of-a-successful-leader Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:28:24 GMT 1. Established leadership qualities shared by some modern entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Ma all share some similar leadership traits which are worth examining. Most of all they are passionate about what they do, and they hold values which they want to posit to ot... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/66419/artificial-intelligence-enhancing-the-role-of-the-project-manager Sun, 11 Oct 2020 08:27:46 GMT Some fear the role of the Project Manager may be eliminated as the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in the workplace. Others see the evolution of AI as creating new opportunities, allowing the Project Manager to transform their role to focus on more critical and crucial res... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/66294/the-key-to-managing-oneself Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:06:29 GMT Peter Drucker was a well known Austrian-American management consultant. His ideas are highly regarded in the project management field. He wrote many books and articles, but one in particular that comes to mind is "Managing Oneself". Still a very popular article, it neatly and meticulously ...