For many folks in the project management biz, one of life’s little frustrations is that the work is so tactical. Other people get to do the strategic work, defining the strategy and deciding what projects will support it. One or more of these projects comes...
Okay. You’ve got your PowerPoint deck now and it’s dressed to impress, with lists and circles and arrows and tables and graphs and all that cool stuff. Now it’s time to take that sucker on the road. I heard a speaker say once that project managers...
No matter how beautiful, perfect and prescient your roadmap is, sooner or later somebody is going to come along and want to change it. For this, you need a change control process, and, being a professional project manager, or pretender to such rank, you know...
You didn’t really become a project manager because you wanted to work for a living, did you? I get hives just thinking about it. The PM is there to make sure the screws get turned in the right direction at the right time, not to...
In some ways, the feudal society of the middle ages and the modern project environment are alike. True, the comparison will only go so far, but when it comes to the topic of loyalty, it holds up pretty well. If you and your project team...
Look out! I’m going Biblical! If you’re undertaking a project without doing requirements, you are “…like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell--and...