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To tell or not to tell, that is the question. When you are making a major change in your organization, when do you tell them? In advance so they can prepare for it, or at the time of change, so that they don’t ask too many questions? The answer seems obvious, right? Tell them with
A vendor’s project manager will not manage client-side activities. Why is having someone who does manage them important for your project?
Were you the student who always crammed for your tests? Or were you the planner? How do you migitate risks that crammers bring to projects?
Everyone in every project has that moment when it all becomes real. How you handle that moment can significantly impact your project.
Do all your stakeholders wield the same influence over your project? Are they all equal, or are some ‘more equal than others?’
Many people will be staking their claim to your project. Learning how work with them is critical to your project’s success.
A quick game of Risk is not normal; neither is a quick, one-time review of your project risks. A Risk Register will help you manage them.
Threat detection can normally be done through SWOT analysis. How do you do this with your stakeholders, and is it a one-time event?
Why hire a full-time, in-house project manager if you don’t need one? Fractional Project Management provides many benefits to your company.
What is low code, no code development, and what impact does it have on the Project Management role?
Sequencing project tasks into a delivery schedule is like playing Tetris with time. It takes knowing your estimates, team availability, and task relationships.
Determining costs and effort estimates on each project task in your WBS will help your overall cost and schedule picture come clear.
Project-progressing deliverables are part of what you are delivering; add them to your work breakdown structure.
Determining the schedule and estimated cost for your project begins by breaking down your sponsor’s requirements into bite-sized activities.
What are the schedule and budget expectations for your project? Learn how to identify these and prepare to relate them to your project scope.
Once assigned to a project, you need to confirm what it will accomplish.
A new project begins, and someone needs to run it. You’ve been chosen, now what? This post defines what a project is.
Many people get into project management not by choice, but by requirement. Maybe they are the person who has time available to “coordinate activities”. They may be “voluntold” that a project is theirs, or that it would be a positive step for their career to run a project or two. In any event, diving into
Solving mysteries means following the clues where they take you. Ignore those clues at your peril!
What do you do when your teammates have different visions for their role on a project, or of the project itself? You find a way to work with them.
Everyone has their One Thing – one task or activity that they dread starting and doing. How do you help them – or yourself – get through it?
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