Leadership

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya.

Thumbnail image for Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. by Josh March 3, 2011 Leadership

You interfered with the productivity of my project team member. Prepare to die. I saw this as a twitter status on my #agile view recently and couldn’t resist doing a blog post with this theme from The Princess Bride.  It’s a topic I’m very passionate about. (Productivity that is. Well, I like the movie too!) [...]

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The 8 Habits of Highly Effective Project Managers

Thumbnail image for The 8 Habits of Highly Effective Project Managers by Josh November 18, 2010 Career

Do you want to be a successful project manager? Me too.  I’m actually a bit obsessed with it. As I work with my project teams, more and more ideas keep coming out to enhance our ability to deliver successful projects. I also study how the most successful project managers I know in various industries are [...]

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Dear project manager, you suck.

by Josh September 2, 2010 Leadership

AND Pawel wrote an interesting blog post titled How to Suck as a Project Manager that sparked this topic for  me.  In that post, Pawel spoke specifically about how keeping procedures is the least important part of the project manager’s role.  I have found this to be true as well. I know many people who [...]

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Is the project manager the “boss” of the project team?

by Josh May 29, 2010 Leadership

In this video, I answer a question from the pmStudent community about whether or not the project manager is the boss of their project team.

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Once Bitten, Twice Shy

by Josh May 1, 2010 Communication

“Mark, I expect you to perform at the level you committed to. There is no excuse for this, you are making our entire project team look bad. Your tasks were nowhere near the critical path before, but now you ARE the critical path.”

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Managing Stakeholders Empathetically

by Josh April 29, 2010 Communication

There are useful models for stakeholder management available; and also a need for empathic stakeholder management which seeks out and includes a variety of variables beyond influence and interest in your project…

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