Project Management Visionaries: Wrike

On May 12, 2011 By

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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Announcing the PM Visionary Series

On May 10, 2011 By

Last week I published a fun article entitled What Do PMs Want From Software in 2011? I received a lot of positive feedback for this piece both on and offline. What I enjoyed most was including other community members and compiling their thoughts in one place.

In the days following the publication, I [...]

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How Relevant is a PMP?

On May 7, 2011 By

About a year ago, I wrote an article called “Is the PMP Losing Its Value“. To date, that article remains the most commented-on piece on this blog.

This year, I wanted to revisit that article, for a couple reasons. Firstly, I know this subject rankles Derek Huether and [...]

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6 Leadership Skills for Project Managers

On May 5, 2011 By

(A guest post by Kristen Riley, of Villanova University)

So, about a week ago, I wrote a piece where I began what I expect to be a long ramble on soft skills that would span multiple blog posts. Well, this week I received a mail from a reader who offered her own take [...]

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Wearing the Shoes of Uncertainty

On April 28, 2011 By

We all have things we’re known for. In my case, you give me a team that’s completely demoralized and dysfunctional, and I’ll turn it around and get it working effectively again. To that point, someone asked me a couple days ago, “Geoff I hear you’re really good at getting people to work together. How do [...]

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What do PMs Want from Software in 2011?

On April 26, 2011 By

With the rise of social media, the last few years has produced a glut of project management tools and software. I’ve been paying close attention to what’s out there and have written about it before. Largely lumped under the moniker “PM2.0″, these tools [...]

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Project Management is Exciting!

On April 16, 2011 By

Seeing as I’m currently looking for work and have some extra time on my hands, I thought it would be fun to spend some time between recruiter calls and make a little video.

When I did my Soft Skill Salsa presentation earlier this year, someone told me the slides reminded [...]

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Does the Paper Outweigh the Product?

On February 2, 2011 By

In 2000, a the height of the dot com craze, I was contracted to build an e-commerce site. I had three months basically to build a portal for online trading of bonds, money market and foreign exchange products, translate it into six different Asian languages, and get it [...]

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