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Master Plan

by Josh April 5, 2007 Career

In the April 2007 edition of PM Network, there is an article titled “Master Plan: IT executives need to develop an eye for project managers” that I would like to comment on. The article is mostly based off a study done by Gartner Inc., in Stamford CT, USA. One sad but true statistic stated that [...]

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Good Requirements ARE SORTA NUTS

by Josh March 28, 2007 Requirements

Have you ever let someone down even though you had tried your best and thought you were doing what they wanted? Few things are frustrating as putting forth tons of effort only to find out you were working on the wrong things. Expectations are such an essential and common component of human relationships and communication [...]

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Book Review: Human Resource Skills For The Project Manager

by Josh March 21, 2007 Books

Human Resource Skills for the Project Manager: The Human Aspects of Project Management, Volume 2 This book by Vijay K. Verma provides a good overview of various project aspects regarding relationships, communication, and human capital in general. I personally found it helpful in the descriptions of various theories out there, and a good starting point [...]

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Carpe Factum Revisited

by Josh March 13, 2007 Books

Today I received an email from Timothy Johnson over at Carpe Factum. I met Timothy when he did a presentation for the Sioux Empire chapter of PMI here in Sioux Falls, SD. His presentation was titled “What your project team isn’t telling you.” I wrote about the presentation back in January. I found out that [...]

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Risk Attitudes

by Josh March 4, 2007 Risk

I listened to Cornelius Fichtner’s new PM Podcast episode today, How do risk attitudes affect your project? As usual, Cornelius provides great content in this episode. The interview with Janice Preston was very insightful and helped me with the concept of risk management. In school, they teach you that risk management is almost like it’s [...]

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Communication Failure and PM HR

by Josh February 13, 2007 Communication

I had a great HR Project Management class tonight. We had a guest speaker from a local organization come in and tell us a little about what she does as a new project manager and some of the challenges she deals with on a daily basis. She reinforced what I’ve experienced and been told a [...]

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