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In a car, a shock absorber can only ever be reactive—it responds when a shock is transmitted through the wheel it's connected to in order to dampen the motion. However, PMOs can be proactive shock absorbers—a role they should embrace.
Modern PMs can learn and apply these techniques to enhance performance and drive successful outcomes. This article explores six essential techniques and six accompanying critical aspects to help you excel with your projects.
What factors improve the odds that project teams will deliver superior project performance? What factors inhibit those performances? Here we explore some power skills, address some disablers, and shatter some common myths.
As our field evolves and integrates with innovation, project managers must adapt by developing a new set of skills. Here we look at strategies for effectively integrating innovation within project management—and how we can close the PM/innovation gap.
The Project Economy needs a manifesto. Antonio Nieto establishes 12 guiding principles to revolutionize project management and implementation practices. These principles seek to make project management more accessible, understandable, and applicable to experts and non-experts alike.
When it comes to digesting change, not all organizations are created equal. As a project manager, you need to be aware of change saturation and what influences it. How do you put this into practice?
Question: We are an organization that has both manufacturing type teams and those who do more software-oriented things. Management really wants us to do things that are more similar in the way we manage projects. Since what we do doesn’t really lend itself to a single approach to the work we need to complete, how can we set up something that works for both parts of the organization?
The way resilience is spoken about, it is seen as a magical balm for all that ails us. It helps us face challenges head on and emerge on the other side fresh faced, inspired, engaged and successful. If only that were true. How well is resilience actually working for us? We should be talking about something else instead.
If you apply the idea of moving people through a change cycle to your project, you will see your stakeholders as people with genuine feelings about the work you are delivering. This can be quite an eye-opener if you are not used to it.
It’s crucial to be disciplined with change requests regardless of how much schedule contingency you may have in your back pocket. You don’t always have to be Dr. No, but the request should be objectively and unemotionally evaluated.
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