Requirements. It’s a word familiar to project managers everywhere. It should also be a word familiar to producers.
A good corporate video hits the viewer on an emotional level…but it’s very important the emotions the video plucks are those the sponsor wants to reach. Have a watch of [...]
Read more and share your opinion →In recent years I’ve had the pleasure of working with clients on some corporate video projects. It’s been an interesting and fun change from the IT world where I’ve spent most of my career, and as an outsider to the industry looking in, I’ve found it a fascinating learning experience. This week I plan on [...]
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I’d like you to meet my most important stakeholder. His name is Harold. Okay, mainly this is just an opportunity to show off how awesome he is, but there’s a point in here, I promise. Earlier this week, I had the unfathomable joy of eating a poppy seed bagel, biting down, and having a single, tiny poppy seed shatter a rear molar. To say I was in, um, excruciating agony would be an understatement, especially as the shards of the tooth still remaining were shredding the inside of my mouth like a Japanese shuriken. It was kind of awful.
Read more and share your opinion →Dear Mr. Harper:
I’m not your number one fan. Okay, I’m not really a fan at all. Okay, let’s dispense with the niceties…I think you’re an ass.
However, I must acknowledge that your office is faced with difficult decisions. Decisions like, where to hold the G20 summit, for example.
One possibility would be to select [...]
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I recently came across an opinion piece by Liza Lowery Massey called Poor Project Management Dooms Many IT Projects.
I really liked it. She had some great points in the face of high rates of IT project failure, and inconsistencies between best practices and poor results. What particularly resonated with me [...]
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So, people keep telling me that multitasking is an effective management technique, and I keep insisting that it isn’t. When one thing has your attention, you’re not paying attention to the other things on your plate. Until now I’ve never had an effective demonstration.
It took me awhile to track down legitimate embed code for [...]
Read more and share your opinion →Time for another Mentor Room recommendation. Today I’m offering a very important book for leaders called “slide:ology”. Once again, this book has nothing to do with project management directly. Project managers need to know how to dance. Every stakeholder I’ve ever met has made me burn my salsa shoes right into the ground while a [...]
Read more and share your opinion →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 [...]
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I'm Geoff Crane. After 22 years in the trenches of a lot of tough projects, I decided to change direction a little bit and focus on sparking ideas in the vibrant field of project management.
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