This post picks up from my previous one on negotiations, and adds some more of my thoughts on the actual process.

The Communicator Is Responsible for Transmission

I cannot stress this enough. If you are trying to send a message to someone, and you don’t take the time [...]

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I Haz PMP!

On August 8, 2011 By

Well butter a cowpie and upchuck your beer, I just passed my PMP exam!

And so my weekend from hell is over.

As I mentioned in my Friday post, I decided to go for my PMP since I’m in this weird life transition. Having credentials seems to beat not having credentials in terms of opening [...]

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Updates and Stuff

On August 5, 2011 By

This post is for my regular readers who’ve been following my tribulations over the last few months. It’s been kind of eventful, which surprised me. For the last two years my life has moved at a snail’s pace. Stuff happens here, stuff happens there, but nothing’s really been accomplished. Blogging’s been pretty much the only [...]

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The other day I wrote a response to Elizabeth Harrin’s post about measuring the success of project management training. I’ve been thinking about that post off-and-on since I wrote it. I’ve especially been thinking about the example I gave about a stakeholder who doesn’t want to box himself into [...]

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Google Plus Win

On July 16, 2011 By

Over the last few years I’ve become quite involved with social media. That’s great and all, but to be perfectly honest, there are some days I wish I’d never become active. It’s not that I don’t enjoy connecting with others, and it’s not that I don’t care about what people are doing; it’s all the [...]

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WTF Where Did Geoff Go?

On June 27, 2011 By

Many of you have been asking me behind-the-scenes, “dude, what’s going on?!” It’s true, I kind of dropped off the face of the earth recently, so I’d like to let you all know what’s been happening.

Well, as many of you know I’ve been grappling with the job search recently, and it hasn’t [...]

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This is the third entry in the PM Visionary Series.

Building this blog has been a wonderful experience, because of all the relationships it’s allowed me to develop. About a year ago, Bob Light of Crosspoint PPM sent me a note to introduce himself. It seems he had taken [...]

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This is the first entry in the PM Visionary Series.

I’m quite thrilled to be able to introduce Andrew Filev of Wrike Software. In today’s article, he describes the challenges of globalization, information silos and frustrated scalability that led him on his journey. Please welcome Andrew by leaving your [...]

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