48 results for communication

  • A Message to My PM SaaS Friends

    Hi guys. You know who you are. I’ve been building relationships with you for several months now, and when we get a chance to talk one-on-one, I always feel great. Anytime there’s something to talk about, whether you’ve come out with a new feature, or written a great white paper or overhauled your UI, I’m happy to pick up the […]

  • IT Project Overages: Where to Look for Answers?

    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 what’s happening. All of the charts on this page […]

  • Ten Knowledge Areas Went Out to Dine…
    One Got Ignored and Then There Were Nine

    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 changes, and get their approval before the change can proceed. It’s the […]

  • Ignore Your People at Your Own Peril

    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 Peterborough’s brand spankin’ new hospital made the decision to close 71 beds and eliminate 151.5 FTEs from […]

  • 40 Ways to Build Trust on Your Project Team

    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 Kaa from the Jungle Book, trust isn’t something you can […]

  • Achievements System for Projects?

    Okay. I’m going to ask you to bear with me as I kick the can around a little. On March 26, Ty Kiisel of @Task posted an article Informed Work Management Decisions Require Trustworthy Project Data. I commented on this post that I believed accurate status updates were a function of effectively translating IT language into stakeholder language. Ty commented […]

  • Twitterview with Jhaymee Wilson

    On Sunday, March 7th at 3:00pm I had the most fun “Twitterview” with Jhaymee Wilson aka @TheGreenPM. You can still see the actual Twitterview by searching hashtag #TheGreenPM. What was fun about this interview was, it was entirely conducted on Twitter. So both questions and answers were limited to 140 characters each. I loved Jhaymee’s approach to the whole affair. […]

  • Cheesy Fun for a Friday

    YouTube is one of my favourite places on the web because of all the fabulous gems you can find. Here’s a little video from 1951 I came across awhile back that absolutely cracked me up. “How to say no, and still keep your friends!” I think about the problems being posed here and I wish my life had been that […]