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Politics and projects go hand in hand. Team conflict, competing agendas, stakeholder dysfunction, resource constraints, and a myriad of oth...

Project teams are dynamic and interpersonal relationships amongst team members are always in a state of flux. Some teams are high performin...

I have posted before about Tom Peters before, and he is someone I really admire. In reviewing some of his materials I came across the "...

I found this document in my inventory of Project Management templates. I apologize that I can't credit the original author. If someone ...

Design Changes – Design changes during project execution almost always cause delays and impacts to your budget. Once the Scope document has...

Do your organization's senior managers and executives understand the benefits of project management? How do you know? Do your organizat...

Over the next few weeks I will discuss several Project Management product offerings available to help the Project Manager get their projects...

Dr Stephen Covey talks about "The Emotional Bank Account" in his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People . The emotional b...

As project managers, it is important that we communicate in a way that inspires and motivates others. What you say, and more importantly ho...

Project managers make mistakes. If you are a project manager and don't make mistakes then you are either lying to yourself or you are to...

(Exerpts from Habit 1: Be Proactive, in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey ) I'm a big fan of Dr. Stephen Cove...

Happy New Year! Hopefully, you can use this list to educate your team members about the various roles on a project team. Executive Steering ...

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We have a strategic plan where I work, however we don't have a strategic or portfolio planning office to manage the output of the strate...

When project teams are surveyed at the end of failed projects, poor communications is always cited as being one of the major causes. Why d...

The subject of Project Management Maturity has been given a lot of press lately. At this year's PMI Global Conference there were lots of...

I have returned from Seattle, and PMI put on another great global congress. I'm reenergized about my profession and the opportunities a...

I'm headed to Seattle for the annual PMI Global Congress. I always enjoy this conference because I'm able to see the latest products...

One of the things that hurt project teams most is the lack of an enterprise (executive) focus and oversight regarding the management of proj...