Why We Don’t Really Need All Those Experts
To put it bluntly, being an expert can be highly overrated.
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Can Your IT Project Manager Sell Better Than Sales?
Technical folks often look more like the customer than the sales and marketing folks I’ve worked with. Let’s take a real world example to add some perspective.
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Use Bad Situations To Make Good Project Management Changes
Problems are often opportunities in disguise. Here, a high turnover of staff was turned into a force for project management change and improvement.
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Do We Manage Projects By Intuition or by Methodology?
What happens if we are not using a method? What do we call it then? I call it management by intuition. Others call it management by experience. Does this work?
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Project Manager Are We Really Managing Both Risk And Change?
In speaking with project managers, methodology masters and tool providers, it seems the key to successful technology adoption is to change the corporate culture.
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Senior Manager It Is OK Not To Be An Expert Which Is Why You Have A Project Manager
Now that we are getting close to the project launch, we start to get "help." We get VPs showing up. What is this all about? How can they afford to do this?
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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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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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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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Project Managers Get The Communications Right!
Project management is often about getting people to do the things we need them to do. Here is how we got people to better follow policy by improving how we communicated and how we can apply this to managing projects.
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We Know Everything We Need To Know To Be Successful Project Managers
We know everything we need to know (or at least enough), and if we just apply it, we will be successful, even without fancy new project management tools.
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Are Projects Really In Chaos?
Success is an amazingly difficult notion to objectively pin down in many projects. While we need to be flexible, I've noted that there is a fine line between flexibility and chaos. Often it is but a single voice that makes all the difference.
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How Mentoring Can Be An Effective Project Management Tool
My best mentors helped me figure out how to do my job better by giving me information and insight, and not by yelling at me to work harder or to stop bringing up all my crazy project management tool ideas!
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Is It Really OK For Your Project To Fail?
Would you tell your project team that it is OK to not get the product working because real-life experience is that sometimes things don’t work out?
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