Musings on Project Management

AUGUST 3, 2016

There comes a point where more planning can not remove the remaining uncertainty, instead execution must be used to provide data and remove uncertainty. This quote comes from a nicely argued case -- from the agile blog 'leading answers' -- for mixing agile methods in rather traditional businesses, like the oil and gas exploration/production business If ever there was a business that.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 3, 2016

This blog post was originally a newsletter article. I scheduled it to send out last week (I do automate sending emails, otherwise you’d get 3 at a time at 11pm one day and then nothing for months) and forgot about it. Then the responses started coming in… and didn’t stop. In the last week I’ve had over 40 emails in response – many of them as long as this article; each of them sharing their own struggles, perspective and tips for coping with the challenges I talked a

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 3, 2016

Acquisition Category 1 (ACAT 1) programs are large - large is greater than $5B, yes Billion with a B. This Integrated Program Management Conference (IPMC) 2013 presentation addresses the issues of managing these programs in the presence of uncertanty. . Like all projects or programs, uncertanty comes in two forms - Irreducible (Aleatory) and Reducible (Epistemic).

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Wrike

AUGUST 3, 2016

Looking for a way to quickly mass create Wrike folders and tasks and rename them easily? Here’s a trick: use Microsoft Excel. One of the tips we mentioned in our blog post 4 Common Mistakes New Wrike Users Make , was to include the project name in the names of its subfolders. For example, under the “Client A” project folder you can have subfolders such as: “Client A Content,” “Client A SEO,” and “Client A Social.” This way, any notifications

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 3, 2016

Dear Elizabeth: What’s the best way to open a meeting ? I just started leading a project team and I often feel awkward at the very beginning of our weekly meeting, especially since I’m trying to gain the trust of my new team. Do you have any good opening lines, or best practices? –New in Town. Dear New in Town: “Shall we get started?” is probably the opening line I use the most!

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