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Karthik Ramamurthy
Author, Say YES to Project Success| Founder KeyResultz
Chennai, Tamilnadu, Tamilnadu, India
Heba Al Shehhi
Director of Project Management Office PMO| Dubai Municipality
Dubai , United Arab Emirates
Using Social Media as a Strategic Tool for Projects-Lessons-Learned (PLLs)
byThe growth of social media creates new opportunities to foster knowledge transfers within many professional arenas, including project management. Projects-lessons-learned (PLLs) are cases in point. This article describes the power of social media, as a new means of facilitating communication and interpersonal interactions, and how such power can be translated into a knowledge-sharing platform of PLLs.
Are You Stuck?
from Project Management 2.0 posted by onSituation: Your project is a huge change for your organization and you've reached a point where you're faced with a serious challenge. Projects are just like life. There are easy p ...
The Eight Stages of Building Commitment
from Change Thinking posted by onIn the early ’80s, while involved in research to identify patterns of change-related success and failure, I learned that the winners and losers in this arena demonstrated very different levels o ...
The Practitioner’s Journey: Return
from Change Thinking posted by onIn this series, we’re exploring the implications of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey[1] through the eyes of Sara, a fictitious change practitioner, as she comes to terms with who ...
Personal Process Management
byMaximizing your own personal effectiveness doesn’t happen by accident. Regardless of the level of formality, detail and rigidity, every structured PM approach has some degree of process infrastructure to support it. But those approaches focus on the organizational perspective. Here, we build on that concept and look at things from the perspective of an individual project manager--personal processes and how you can use them to improve your performance.
Project Management: A Tale of Two Futures
byProject management in practice struggles to evolve, and we consistently fail to take the actions we know we should. Human inertia is too strong an influence to ignore if we want the future of PM to be that much different than it is today. If it were to be different, however, where might it go? There are two overall directions that appear to be emerging, and each has advocates and detractors. Whether (or indeed if) one attains dominance will depend upon the intersection of many forces.
Manage the Forest, Not the Trees
byProject control is not about the minutiae, it’s about the big picture. Here we provide some guidelines on how to move from micro-level project management to a more macro-level control phase.
New Kid on the Block_Reporting to Duty
from Project Management Central posted by onHi I'm new to the site and just recently got heavily involved in Project Management. It's a field that I always had great interest in but wasn't sure if it was right for me. Well after doing research ...
Explaining Programs and Projects in Normal Language
from Project Management Central posted by onOne thing I have noticed is how well a metaphor works when trying to explain the difference between programs and projects to "normal" business people. Here is a post I made recently to my new blog @Or ...
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