To communicate effectively, youve got to know whats appropriate. After all, you wouldnt screen a movie like The Evil Dead for a bunch of kindergartners, would you? A solid stakeholder analysis is the key to …
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All the gurus say communication is 90% of the project manager’s job. Thanks, gurus. That leaves us10% for everything else, including lunch. So what’s a PM to do? Skip lunch? Never! Surely “everything else” takes up more …
There’s an old “Doonesbury” comic strip in which it’s Christmas and Duke, who is theU.S. ambassador to China, is at his desk opening gifts. One of them turns out to be a pistol—maybe an WWII-vintage Luger. As he’s …
If you’re going to analyze your stakeholders, or even just take them to lunch, you need to know who they are first. After deciding on the goal of your communication plan, the next step is …
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Okay, now that I’ve gotten weddings out of my system (see the previous post), it’s back to project management communications (see the post before the previous post). If your project communications are going to be good, you’ve got to …
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Ah, networking. The process of walking into a roomful of strangers and making the acquaintance of some of them. Simple, right? Simple, but not easy, at least for about 70% of the population. According to Devora Zack, …
I’ve been through several big organizational changes in my corporate career. Some were train wrecks, while others rolled smoothly along. I worked for one company where 90% of the finance department just disappeared overnight, without warning beforehand …