Lessons Learned

Dux corralled Bas De Baar, Cornelius Fichtner, and myself and we did a collaborative webcast on Ustream while we were at the Project Management Institute’s North America Global Congress in Washington D.C.

Bas provided several lessons learned for us in this video:

  • Focus on “What does ‘done’ look like?” – specifically to your stakeholders
  • Focus on providing feedback on how stakeholder interests are met
  • Focus on 1 and 2!

We realized the focus on communication and people.  Then Dux said something that set me off about trying to schedule before it’s time.

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Dux corralled Bas De Baar, Cornelius Fichtner, and myself and we did a collaborative webcast on Ustream while we were at the Project Management Institute’s North America Global Congress in Washington D.C.

Cornelius discusses the importance of building customer relationships early in this segment, and focusing on your customer. His second point is on the importance of project management expertise or industry expertise. As a part of that discussion, I relay a discussion I had with Hal Macomber about the need to have a foundation in whatever type of work you are trying to manage.

Finally, the question of Agile comes up, and why it seems to be such a focus of this particular conference.  I think it’s a class of methodologies that are starting to come into their own.  Glen Alleman comes up on this point and how he has said in the past that many defense and space programs have been doing Agile for a long time.

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Project Management Institute NA Global Congress 2010 Webcast – Part 1

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Dux corralled Bas De Baar, Cornelius Fichtner, and myself and we did a collaborative webcast on Ustream while we were at the Project Management Institute’s North America Global Congress in Washington D.C. We went around and discuss our top 3 lessons for project managers in general, and then gave our thoughts about the conference. I’ll [...]

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Lessons Learned for Project Management Conferences from #pminac

by Josh October 12, 2010 Grab Bag

I’ve been at the 2010 North America Global Congress put on by the Project Management Institute over the last 4 days.  I’ll be posting video and photos over the next few weeks from the event. It has been a great time and I have gained much value from the experience.  I would like to offer [...]

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

by Dr_Paul September 15, 2009 Lessons Learned

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

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Ode to a Jedi Master – Who is your mentor?

by Travis K. Anderson, MBA, PMP June 16, 2009 Career

PMP Training Course $99 dollars

Orange Belt – Microsoft Project $850 dollars

Advanced Project Management in Primavera P6 $1,200.00 dollars

Advanced Earned Value Management Techniques $1,800.00 dollars

Having a mentor?

PRICELESS

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