Sure, it’s great to have the technology available to support you in capturing ideas and providing information to your team, but don’t forget the value of the personal factor. Connecting with your team members in a meeting, celebration, for coffee or lu…
Using Technology To Manage Your Project Isn’t Enough
Sure, it’s great to have the technology available to support you in capturing ideas and providing information to your team, but don’t forget the value of the personal factor. Connecting with your team members in a meeting, celebration, for coffee or lu…
Using Technology To Manage Your Project Isn’t Enough
Sure, it’s great to have the technology available to support you in capturing ideas and providing information to your team, but don’t forget the value of the personal factor. Connecting with your team members in a meeting, celebration, for coffee or lu…
What Is A Project?
My belief is that we don’t look at a project as something that is set up to manage change and this is what creates difficulties. If we ground ourselves in first understanding what the change is that the business wants, then the process for us making th…
How Committed Are You and Your Team To Your Project
I know it’s a crazy question and yet I’m going to guess that at least some of your project team aren’t fully committed to the project. How do I know that? They aren’t performing, they aren’t even really bought into what it is that you’re doing on…
How Do You Solve Your Project Problems?
You may not think about the people around you, or that you know who could help you solve any major problem on your project that you haven’t faced before. People like another Senior Project Manager, for example; or a Project Coach. Consider the pe…
Episode 93 – The American Chestnut Tree Project
The Podcast for Project Managers by Project Managers. In the 1900’s, a fungal pathogen which causes chestnut tree blight destroyed 90% of nearly 4 billion American chestnut trees. In this episode Dr. Bill Powell shares his vision and research processes which bring hope to this majestic tree. Table of Contents 01:10 … Meet Dr. Powell […]
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Don’t Start a Project For the Wrong Reason
Do you notice that a number of projects in your business/organization are started because someone has a budget to spend and someone else comes up with a bright idea? The very worst reason to start a project. Let’s talk about why that’s the case.
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Does Project Size Matter? [PM Insights Episode 133]
Does it matter how large or small your project is in relation to how you manage it, or what it means to manage it? My opinion is no, it doesn’t. Argue with me if you like.
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Does Culture Affect Project Team Performance? [PM Insights Episode 132]
The answer is ABSOLUTELY because the culture is the way that a TEAM engages and interacts with each other. Unless there are strong open, honest and trusting relationships built then it will definitely impact team output.
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What Should the Relationship Between PM and Project Sponsor Be? [PM Insights Episode 131]
What should the relationship between the Project Manager and the Project Sponsor be like? It would say it needs to have trust, honesty, openness and clear communication at the core of it.
Let’s explore this relationship more.
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How to Manage Unhappy External Stakeholders
Sometimes your external stakeholders aren’t happy (your vendors or customers) so here are some ways to turn the relationship relationship around when they become unhappy.
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3 Ways to Manage Your Stakeholder Relationships
Stakeholder relationships can sometimes be tricky to manage, so here are three tips to make that job easy. The key is to finding out what your stakeholders want and giving that to them. Not so easy to do sometimes.
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3 Ways to Lower Your Stress Levels
As a Project Manager stress is one of the common things you experience, right? Here are three ways that you can support yourself and lower your stress levels.
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Four Practices To Support Self Motivation In Your Team
Jim Collins talked about four practices that support a culture where self-motivation flourishes. I want to share these four practices and explain why they are valuable for us to use as Project Leaders. They ultimately lead to more cohesive team teamwor…
Testing On a Project Is Really About Your Reputation
You do realize that testing on an IT system project has little to do with the actual testing itself and more to do with your reputation? Why do I say that, well if you don’t test and the system fails your reputation suffers? If you do thoro…
How To Manage Your Issues So They Don’t Become Risks
Issues arise on a project, that’s a given. The problem is when those issues turn into risks. That’s the last thing you want happening on your project. So, what can you do to ensure that your issues stay as issues and are resolved BEFORE they turn into …
How Anger Can Make Us More Powerful: Anger Management
Is anger management a bunch of BS? How can anger make us more powerful? Discussed: Anger vs aggression, Robert Augustus Masters, Equine Therapy
Ways To Fix Your Resourcing Problems
Your project can’t possibly be delivered successfully when you have resourcing problems. Here are some different ways to get the resources you need in order to deliver. You might not have thought about some of them and yet if you ask, you might be surp…
Time Management Tips
We all know how hectic life can be. There never seems to be enough time to get everything done. Here are some simple tips your can implement to at least find a little bit more time in your day, and get what needs to be done, done.
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What! No Business Case?
You’ve just been given a project only to find there is no Business Case. Now, what do you do? Here is a way to get agreement on what needs to be delivered, in writing, so you have something to work to. You need this clarity in order to know…