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Dealing With a Resistant Team: Who Is Being Unreasonable?

by Andy Jordan May 19, 2021

Does the team always come first? To a point. Strengthening and developing the team is the most important deliverable of any project—but that mantra can be used as a weapon against the PM.

Dealing With Conflicts in Projects: Viewpoint of Different Stakeholders During Product Conception Engineering

by João M. S. Ricardo October 20, 2020

How can one deal with delays on the approval of engineering documents in projects? Stressing the need to balance expectations between suppliers and customers, the author explains the triggers that lead to divergences on deliveries and a method to reduce the occurrence of comments having low relevance in engineering documents.

Delegate Goals, Not Deliverables

by Bart Gerardi February 16, 2023

Instead of driving the completion of tasks, project leaders should point teams in the right direction and empower them to deliver positive results. Good teams become great when they have the resources needed to succeed, the flexibility to innovate, and the ownership to grow.

Delegation for Product Leaders

by Rich Mironov May 28, 2020

Successful product leaders need to delegate most hands-on product work, focusing instead on leader-level activities. That means understanding what each team member can handle, having an upskilling plan, and building trust.

Deliver More by Committing to Less

by Bart Gerardi November 10, 2022

By committing to full capacity, teams often must make compromises, accepting partial work or splitting work. But by leaving some capacity available, teams can take on additional work based on customer feedback or new information without disrupting the existing plan—and deliver more.

Distributed PM: Communication

by Bart Gerardi August 20, 2020

Communication with a co-located team, or a team that is able to meet in person, is difficult enough. Communicating with a distributed team is even more of a challenge. Here is some advice for making it work for everyone involved.

Don’t Forget These Stakeholders

by Bart Gerardi April 21, 2022

Project leaders know that identifying and managing the relationship with key stakeholders is critical to project success, but sometimes equally important indirect stakeholders get missed. Who are they?