Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:57:11 GMT https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blogs/741963/project-signposts This blog is designed to help illuminate those key behaviors that facilitate project success. The focus is to revisit those foundational elements that often get lost in all of the project methodologies and terminologies-but which are essential across all disciplines in project management. https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/74172/can-chatgpt-assist-with-meaningful-project-management-blog-posts- Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:31:51 GMT A few of my business contacts have recently experimented with OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool to see if it can produce meaningful content in their area of expertise that sounds like their writing and may provide an effective head start to their written documents.  I decided to do the same thing and... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/73784/change-management-at-the-forefront-of-digital-transformations---real-customers-and-medical-patients-could-be-on-the-receiving-end- Fri, 13 Jan 2023 20:20:23 GMT I thought I’d change up my usual approach for this month’s blog entry.  Usually, I focus on my learnings as a project manager.  This time, I’d like to convey the real-world impact of a project implementation which appeared to me as lacking in both change and project manag... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/73137/hey-quiet-quitters---mediocrity-is-your-new-ceiling- Wed, 12 Oct 2022 19:06:13 GMT To me, effective project management always hinged on exceeding my Sponsor’s expectations.  Engrained in me from my earliest days of programming system modifications were the words of my mentor urging me to give that little extra effort and go above and beyond the requirements, and to real... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/71768/the-not-so-great-resignation-for-me---how-was-it-for-you- Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:20:39 GMT There are likely thousands of different factors which motivated people to leave their jobs during the so-called “Great Resignation” over the past eighteen months.  Whether it be COVID-19 itself or related stress, boredom with their current roles, or just a desire to move to new or b... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/71194/communication--communication--communication- Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:02:48 GMT In the real estate world, you often hear the adage, “location, location, location.”  It refers to the fact that the location of a property may have an outsized impact on the sales price or ease of selling a certain piece of property than logic might dictate. There is a similar force... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/70956/do-you-unlock-the-value-in-your-project-sponsors- Fri, 10 Dec 2021 05:00:00 GMT   One of the lessons I should have learned in my early years but did not always capitalize on effectively was unlocking the value of actively partnering with my project sponsors. As project managers, we generally understand that project stakeholders are those who the project directly im... https://www.ProjectManagement.com/blog-post/70902/focus--the-timeless-behavior-in-project-success Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:54:30 GMT Recently, I was reflecting on the evolving landscape of project management and methodologies promoted over the past two decades. My mind kept returning to one rarely mentioned, but essential behavior that is present in the effectiveness of all good project approaches. It should be fundamental, ...