Today I want to talk a little bit about communication.
I came across a piece in the news recently that gave me pause enough to want to check multiple sources. Mine is not a political blog, so I will refrain from injecting my own opinions. However, I thought this would be a fabulous opportunity [...]
Read more and share your opinion →Over the last couple days, I’ve been taking a look at the annual costs of IT projects, how much value is retained after they’re complete, and how much money is wasted. Today I wanted to spend a bit of time looking at the ratios between the two, and try to understand [...]
Read more and share your opinion →I was reading up on project failure statistics this weekend as I often need to remind my clients about the harsh realities of project management when entering into a new project. While I don’t like to scare my clients, I still hear “oh we’ll figure that out later” from stakeholders and sponsors when trying to [...]
Read more and share your opinion →Change control. Project managers everywhere know the term. When a stakeholder requests a change to project work (scope), the impacts of that change need to be formally assessed. If the change will result in more time or money, the project manager needs to inform all stakeholders of the [...]
Read more and share your opinion →So I visited my home town (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada) for the weekend. While I was there, I took note of a headline in the local newspaper, by Kennedy Gordon. He wrote an interesting piece entitled Nurses ignored.
The gist is, executive management at [...]
Read more and share your opinion →Trust. It’s one of the fundamental ingredients of any successful relationship. Without trust, a project team can find itself spending all their time battling one another rather than getting work done. As a project manager, the culture on your team is your responsibility. As you may remember from the serpent Read more and share your opinion →
Okay, so I feel the need to take my views on PM2.0 further. On Friday I posted a piece about what I perceive as an overreaction to new tools on the marketplace for project managers to take advantage of. There seems to be a contention that the tools are either going to hurt [...]
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