Finding A Noble Purpose For That Project Motivates Success
The commercial world is all about making money. Yet successful companies often have a noble mission beyond just making money that helps drive their success.
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Project Managers Teach Your Daughters War Games!
Consider finding innovative ways, like teaching your daughters to play wargames, to motivate people to do or learn useful project skills.
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Project Managers There Is A Better Use For Those Long Work Hours
We all love it when we have project staff who work around the clock. Makes life easier, doesn’t it? I’m not so sure.
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Are We Project Managing Or Sending In The Clowns?
Ways we try to help but actually undermine the project. As a senior manager, try to avoid these. As the project manager, try and manage around them if we can not get relief otherwise.
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Project Manager Who Is Really In Charge Of Your Project?
The project manager needs to take charge of their project. Allowing “strong personalities” or other persons (even your boss) to effectively take charge of the project is a recipe for failure. Here is how we did it.
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Project Managers Use That Leadership Vacuum To Take The Initiative
Some organizations don't seem to have effective leadership. But this can be an opportunity for the project manager to take some needed initiatives. Here is how we did it.
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This Is Your Number One Priority
Security is our number one priority. Except for quality which is our number one priority, right along with speed to market which is our number one priority. So, what is a good project manager to do?
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50% Of Our Weekly Project Tasks Are Not Completed But How To Succeed Anyway
This is bad, right? Only about half the tasks scheduled get accomplished in the required week. As a project manager I thought “great, I can work with this!” Huh? Why is that?
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Too Many Rules Mean Something Is Wrong With Our Project Management
We had the premier project for the organization and we were determined to finally get a product out on-time and with good quality. We did it, and in doing so highlighted how many of our rules were not really helping us to complete a quality project.
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Do You Spend More Time With Your Eagles or With Your Turkeys?
Managers spend all their time with their “best” folks and let their “under-performers” just kind of exist. This may be misguided if we want to significantly improve our performance.
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What Project Management Can Learn From Medical Weight Loss Management
Lack of sufficient sleep may compromise the efficacy of typical dietary interventions for weight loss and related metabolic risk reduction. What does this have to do with project management? Everything!
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Project Managers Quit Talking Jargon To Our Customers
Project management is often about learning to communicate in another language. I’m not talking about a national language, but instead the language of the industry or domain that we are working in.
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Five Secrets For Creating Successful Project Management Metrics
A metric is a project management tool that captures an essential aspect of the project or organization and provides insight, allowing us to make rapid and accurate project management decisions. Here are five secrets for creating successful project management metrics.
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A Real Project Management Plan May Confuse Many People
We took the official plan document and turned it into a real plan that we used everyday. This was different from the classic plan that was created to meet a checklist requirement. Here is how we made the change and how moving to a real plan can often confuse folks and how we overcame this normal confusion.
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Being Chaotic Is Often Smart In Project Managing Innovation
“More and more,” Carlson says, “innovation that happens from the top down tends to be orderly and dumb. Innovation that happens from the bottom up tends to be chaotic but smart.”
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