The scope is highly technical, the schedule is tight and the budget must be parsimoniously managed. With so many aspects to balance all at once, how is it that we have come to be the project manager of this endeavor.
Why?
Did you choose to study the discipline of project management and make a career out of [...] Read more »

Many of us have experienced frustrations with obtaining useful program performance data. It is not always an easy process of maturing project management and earned value management best practices… Read more »

Many of us work in different industries, have different experiences, live in different parts of the world, and are from different generations, but I bet we all have a few books in common among all of us here… Read more »

Guest post by Travis Anderson
We continuously read about how innovative projects execute and deliver products and services that have never been done before. In terms of formulating strategy on our programs, I sit here and wonder how cognition of strategy determines the future results on our programs. Since cognition is primarily based on past [...] Read more »

Guest post from Travis Anderson

According to Jack Welch, strategy is very straightforward in life. On page 165 of Winning, he says, “You pick a general direction and implement like hell.” Read more »

Guest post by Travis Anderson

Yukl and Falbe define seven types of leadership power. The authors decided based on research that the dichotomy of positional power and personal power was a two-factor concept of leadership power. Read more »

Guest post from Travis Anderson
As Thomas N. Gilmore reports in his article, Effective Leadership During Organizational Transitions, leaders of organizations or programs are to focus on the seams between the subordinate roles and the overall strategic relation of the business unit to its environment.
Gilmore also suggests that the organizational chart be drawn in a way [...] Read more »

Guest post from Travis Anderson

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The Three Phases of a Trader’s Education: Psychology, Money Management, Method by Jeffery Kennedy
This article is an advisory excerpt by Jeffrey Kennedy, Chief Commodity Analyst at Elliott Wave International (EWI). He advises aspiring traders to conform to three phases of a trader’s education. The first of the phases is “Methodology”, [...] Read more »

Leadership in an organization and on a project is one of those absolutes that make a difference in the ambiance of which we work. Each person will have a different definition for leadership. During my undergrad studies,*Professor Peter Correa taught me that leadership is comprised of the following attributes: Read more »