We’ve Known The Basics For Years But Still Need To Apply Them
We need to be reminded more instead of being being taught more.
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Our Desire To Help Often Gets In The Way Of Getting Things Done
He was just sure that if we asked more questions and understood each and every defect we would eliminate the backlog of defects. It never happened.
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Certification Is Useful But Not For The Reasons We Think
I remember a candidate once presented me page after page of certifications, each in its acetate protector, neatly organized in a faux-leather binder.
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Project Management Lessons From The US Congress
There is a lot of fear among people who have been here for a long time that those from the new generation are a threat to the way things have worked.
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ALWAYS Is Probably Not The Word We Want To Use
"I’ve ALWAYS found that the face-to-face relationship is far superior." Always?
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Social Tools That Motivate Getting Things Done
You know that if you don’t show up, people are going to notice.
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Four Steps To Not Wasting Our Great Opportunities
Scrum emerged as the winner among the agile methodologies. But in some cases, managers kept the developers out of the loop and the opportunity was wasted.
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Do We As Managers Tell or Sell Our Directions?
As our team goes through various predictable stages of growth, we as project managers should often vary our approach based upon the current stage of our team.
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An Easy Fix To Some Of Our Biggest Problems
Development's management regularly chastised the project testing team for its poor performance and said that this was hampering development’s productivity.
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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 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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