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Effective Opportunity Management for Projects
Glen Alleman left a comment recommending several resources for me, one of which is the book “Effective Opportunity Management for Projects“. I am reading it now and would like to share some of my initial insights thus far.
I’ve found the authors agree with me that standard risk management approaches mostly pay lip service to opportunity [...] Read more »
Common Language is the Key to Project Management
Imagine being asked to work on a project, only you don’t speak the language in the country in which it will be conducted. You wouldn’t get very far, and you’d most likely experience a lot of raised eyebrows because all you could do is point and smile. Sharing a common language is not the same [...] Read more »
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 »
Personality type for to-be Project Managers
By Soma
Like many others, I am an aspiring Project Manager.
Apart from all the hard core techniques, certifications, networking and trying to motivate your team- the asset of a project manager more than often is his or her own personal soft skill set.
Ever thought about the personality type you belong to and how it can contribute towards your effort in becoming a PM? Read more »
Point and Shoot Project Management
Project management as a whole has paralleled somewhat the changes we have witnessed in photography. Project management also has been a skill for the few, with the barrier to entry being quite high. However, the barriers are being reduced and the chance for abandoning “point and shoot” project management is here! Read more »
Everything you know about project management is wrong
Everything you know about project management is wrong. Audacious? Maybe not. Read on. Read more »
The Alpha Project Manager Revisited
CIO.com published Six Attributes of Successful Project Managers this morning, by Meridith Levinson. The six points outlined are focused on general soft skills, which seem to be exactly right in my book.
Here are the six attributes, with my $ .02 thrown in. Read more »
Project Success: Considering Leadership
Considering leadership when evaluating project performance and project management should go hand in hand. However, many organizations fail to include leadership in their metrics and in their evaluation process. This is a mistake that can prove costly. Read more »
Project Management: A Developer Speaks Out
Brandon Ching wrote a great post about PM from a developer’s point of view…here comes the pmStudent’s response! Read more »
Resolving Conflict
Conflicts arise due to incompatibility of goals. Biswamohan Routray writes about the strengths and weaknesses of 5 methods for resolving conflicts in project management Read more »
Excuses for Project Managers
The possibilities are endless! We could even get the team involved by picking someone out of a hat to have the honor of rolling the die or spinning the wheel in a team meeting to determine which excuses we will use. Talk about teamwork! Read more »
Lessons Learned from Anita Wotiz
Anita Wotiz is the guest blogger this week over at the UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Project Management blog. She published great post titled “An unrepeatable success?” Read it here.
It was great to hear about the project, specifically the lessons learned and trying to relate them to my own experience.
I wouldn’t write the first set [...] Read more »
Watch Out for False Productivity
Cutting’s Edge is one of my favorite project management blogs. Thomas recently posted on the cost of project success. I enjoyed the examples of the construction of several wonders of the world as projects and their often overlooked consequences on the project teams that built them.
Thomas draws out a parallel to contemporary projects, and [...] Read more »
Moving Beyond the Triple Constraints
Dave Garrett recently wrote on the concepts expressed by Aaron Shanhar in his book, Reinventing Project Management. The gist is that the common triple-constraint model of managing cost, schedule, and scope is not enough. As I like to put it and in Goldratt’s words, necessary but not sufficient.
I have not yet read Shanhar’s [...] Read more »
Research Project - IT Project Failure
Matt Miller is a final year student at Loughborogh University in the UK. He is working on his dissertation on IT Project Failures, and would like your help!
There are 2 surveys below, one for ProjectManagers to complete with details of their most recent 3 projects since January 2005 and another questionnaire for anyone involved in [...] Read more »
