Your ultimate goal in rendering a project is to finish on time, below budget and with a happy client. But how do you perform it? Here are five tips to assist you.
Be Honest
As the saying goes “Honesty is the Best Policy”.You have to be honest all the time in dealing with your customers. Tell them [...] Read more »

Guest post by Erika Flora
Years ago, I heard this great quote that has really stuck with me and become somewhat of a mantra. It is as follows:
There is no limit to the good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.
General of the Army George C. Marshall

What a fabulous concept! Often, we [...] Read more »

Guest post from Craig Brown
Ethics In Project Management
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I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter lately.
I know what you’re thinking….”gee, I wish I had that much time to waste!”
Hear me out.
At first, Twitter seemed to be this scary, worthless time sink.  I signed up and then my account stood dormant for months before I got enough motivation to check it out [...] Read more »

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 »

Update: Linda from Renton, Washington is the lucky winner! Congratulations Linda!! O’Reilly will be shipping the book directly to you shortly.
Dux Raymond Sy contacted me recently to let me know about his new book, “SharePoint for Project Management“. I follow Dux on Twitter and read his blog and like what he [...] Read more »

Effective project managers communicate about 90% of their time. There are no misunderstandings; there are only failures to communicate. Project managers communicate by using different mediums to convey a message. The message might be to an individual, a selective meeting with team leads, project sponsors, or the whole team collectively. It is truly critical for [...] Read more »

I wanted to share an email question I received through a Twitter contact of mine and my response.  Feel free to chip in with your own insights!
Question:
I hope you don’t mind me coming to you for advise and help with Project Management. I have this one question which I keep pondering on. In what way [...] Read more »

Published in the March issue of the Journal of Product Innovation Management:
“One new study shows that project managers can get much better performance from their team when they treat team members with honesty, kindness and respect. A second study shows that product development teams can reap significant quality and cost benefits from socializing with people [...] Read more »