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Lessons Learned- What (if anything) can or should project managers learn from the IEEE approving the 802.11n WiFi Standard

Lessons Learned- What (if anything) can or should project managers learn from the IEEE approving the 802.11n WiFi Standard

At Last: IEEE Approves 802.11n Wi-Fi Standard After 7 Years; and Institutions vs Collaboration video Read more »

Ode to a Jedi Master – Who is your mentor?

Ode to a Jedi Master - Who is your mentor?

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Having a mentor?

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News Flash: Project Manager Discovers Why He’s Pulled All His Hair Out

News Flash:  Project Manager Discovers Why He's Pulled All His Hair Out

Tony had just finished a year-long project, and was exhausted. As a good project manager should, he had been keeping a lessons learned file throughout the project, and now that it was completed he was making a final entry, looking back over the whole year. Read more »

Do you act on lessons learned?

Do you act on lessons learned?

In an effort to get better at this and share with everyone else, I’ve created a Google document template to help document, understand, validate, and act on lessons learned. Download it here. Read more »

Avoid the Same Old Mistakes by Focusing on Lessons Learned

Avoid the Same Old Mistakes by Focusing on Lessons Learned

It’s said there are no new project management sins, just old ones repeated. It’s also said that we don’t learn the lessons from past projects and this must be true, otherwise why would we keep making the same old mistakes? Read more »

Project Termination Modes

Project Termination Modes

All projects have fixed start date and completion date. Project termination is a process that occurs whether a project is successful or not. The major aim is to document the “lessons learned” and store it in the organizational process assets. In this post I will focus on the different ways to close or terminate a project. Read more »