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  • Project Management Visionaries: Crosspoint

    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 on the huge task of resurrecting a project management platform that […]

  • Project Management Visionaries: Wrike

    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 thoughts on his story in the comments section below! It all […]

  • 6 Leadership Skills for Project Managers

    (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 on project leadership, and she wrote it […]

  • What do PMs Want from Software in 2011?

    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 boast improved collaborative capability, improved tracking mechanisms, and improved reporting. But how does the PM community at […]

  • The Hiring Manager Black Hole

    So I’ve been looking rather unsuccessfully for work lately and one of the things that’s been really gnawing at me is the human resource black hole. We all know how it is…you contact an employer about a job and then never hear back. Recruiters are incredibly busy people so despite being out of work, we know not to take it […]

  • Are You an Engaged Project Manager?

    (A guest post by Robert Kelly, PMP) How well do you know the details of your project? If an executive called you up five minutes from now and asked for an update, could you give her one? Regular commenter Robert Kelly weighs in with an opinion piece about the need for project managers to be engaged on their projects…and not […]

  • No One Likes Change, But Could They?

    (A guest post by Robert Kelly, PMP) We all face change on a regular basis in our organizations. It’s a difficult thing, but we have to cope. Regular commenter Robert Kelly chimes in with an original article that looks at both organizational change and project-driven change, and offers ways to handle it effectively. Organizations are riddled with conflicting theories, approaches, […]

  • Happy Vacation Time, Everybody!

    It’s the first week of August, and all of my clients are on vacation, so I’ve decided to take a bit of a break myself. I’m turning my attention full steam to building my sales “pipeline” over the next two weeks. For me, this means sending clothes to the laundry, dusting off my elevator speech, and preparing marketing materials. While […]