Project Risk Coach

JUNE 17, 2016

Mark Langley, President and CEO of the Project Management Institute (PMI), penned a great article entitled Using Project Management to Reduce Risk. While the article was written for Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), it’s a message that all leaders should read. Indeed, “high-performing companies manage risk in conjunction with projects and programs far more often than low performers do.” Image courtesy of AdobeStock (edited in Canva).

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The Lazy Project Manager

JUNE 17, 2016

‘If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words’ Cicero, Roman orator and statesman. The would be ‘lazy’ project manager will think very, very carefully about what they need to communicate and how they need to communicate it and why they are communicating what they are communicating. The general guidance is that some 70-80% of a project manager’s time will be spent in communicating.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 17, 2016

This month’s free project management template is a register for your stakeholders. This is what it looks like. Pretty basic, huh? But using mine saves you a job. It’s not like being a classroom where you’ll tick them off as they arrive at meetings or anything (what’s that called where you are? Here it’s the class register and the teacher takes it in the morning).

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 17, 2016

Every week we scour the web to bring you a few of the stories we think are worthy of discussion. This week we’re deep in the data weeds, exploring the pros and cons of big data vs. small data, how to use it to make business decisions and whether the role of data scientist is really needed. We all know that data mining is incredible useful, assuming you know what you’re looking for and have a mechanism for mining and parsing it.

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Musings on Project Management

JUNE 17, 2016

Jeff Haden at the Owner's Manual on Inc.com has written about employee qualities. By Haden's telling, great employees have these qualities: They ignore job descriptions. They’re eccentric. But they know when to dial it back. They publicly praise. And they privately complain. They speak when others won’t. They like to prove others wrong. They’re always fiddling.

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