Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2016

‘Business acumen’ is one of those skills that you see on role profiles for jobs. It’s also something mentioned in the standards for professional project management bodies. Apparently, business acumen is something that project managers should have. I believe that my success at working with senior stakeholders and on difficult projects is to do with business acumen.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Some organizations lack clarity about who approves the project change requests. On one project, the sponsor tells the project manager to make the decisions. On other projects, the sponsor makes the decisions. And yet, in other cases, senior management gets involved. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock. Your project may morph into a two-headed monster without an integrated change control process, resulting in adverse impacts to schedule, cost, and scope.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Lean manufacturing has become a popular way to eliminate waste, reduce costs and improve efficiencies. This philosophy originated, largely, at Toyota and is used to better align customer needs with manufacturing operations. The challenge with lean is that, despite its attraction to many executives who want to cut costs and increase productivity , a lean process doesn’t happen overnight.

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Ganttic

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Companies usually have teams to complete important jobs in a much effective and faster way. A team means combined efforts, knowledge, energy, and skills, and if the people in a team are fully motivated, then they can accomplish anything that they would want to. If you want to motivate your team, here are some tips you can follow to help them be more driven and enable them to do their best every time.

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Celoxis

OCTOBER 3, 2016

INFOGRAPHIC: How Project Management Software helps Small Teams do Big Things.

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Fix my Project Chaos

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Let’s talk about Project Portfolio Management In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to Michael Hannan, the founder and principal consultant at Fortezza Consulting, about Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Michael is a board member of the PMI Washington DC chapter. He started in PPM at NASA in the 1990s working on the International Space Station and […].

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The difference between failure and success is the difference between doing something almost right and doing something right. — Benjamin Franklin. Related articles. Just Because You Say Words, It Doesn't Make Then True. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. IT Risk Management.

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Fix my Project Chaos

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Let’s talk about Project Portfolio Management In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to Michael Hannan, the founder and principal consultant at Fortezza Consulting, about Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Michael is a board member of the PMI Washington DC chapter. He started in PPM at NASA in the 1990s working on the International Space Station and […].

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