Project Risk Coach

MARCH 19, 2018

Earlier I wrote about eights ways to treat risks. One of the risk responses is avoidance. The focus of this strategy is to ensure the risk does not occur by eliminating the cause of the risk. Call the Fire Department. It was Fall, and I had raked the leaves in my backyard into three piles. I was trying to decide what to do with them. I knew there was a ban on burning in my area since we had been extremely dry for months.

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 19, 2018

One of my Agile Project Management students asked me about stage gates and agile. My first response was this: Agile is not a gated methodology, primarily because scope is viewed as emergent, and thus the idea of pre-determined gate criteria is inconsistent with progressive elaboration and emergence. Agile does embrace structured releases; you could put a criteria around a release and use.

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Digite

MARCH 19, 2018

In part 2 of this series, Christophe looks at the very Swedish phenomenon of Kanban going “man-cold”! As teams implement their early Kanban boards, they inevitably face the reality of the gap between what they are actually used to doing vs. what they put on their Kanban board. (We have posted about this phenomenon earlier as well!) Here, Christophe explains why this happens – and what to do about it quickly so as to not fall into the Policy Debt-trap!

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Online PM Courses

MARCH 19, 2018

Project closure is often viewed as an afterthought by Project Managers: We’re done, let’s run.’ But projects can become like a dripping tap. You tighten the faucet a bit more, but it still keeps dripping. What my friend, Ron Rosenhead , refers unglamorously to as ‘project dribble’ Yet one of the most influential project management training sessions I ever attended, early in my PM career (by Paul O’Neill) identified the basics of project management in three les

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TimeCamp

MARCH 19, 2018

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 19, 2018

Project managers are often in a position where their boss is someone several levels above them in the hierarchy and they don’t spend a lot of time with their actual line manager. You guessed it: I’m talking about working for a project sponsor. Many of my project sponsors have been C-suite individuals with plenty of other demands on their time than answering my emails.

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Resource Guru

MARCH 19, 2018

The name rings a bell, but where did I see it last? Today’s Friday update comes on a Monday, since we were busy fixing up a feature last week that didn’t quite make the cut. Last week we showed how the new date navigation makes accessing the schedule much easier than it used to be, removing the Load More prompts to provide a frictionless experience with continuous and unlimited horizontal scrolling.

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EarthPM

MARCH 19, 2018

Stop. Grab a piece of paper from your desk. Turn it 90 degrees to the right (or left). There. You now have the basic idea of this blog post. And the latest Pulse of the Profession report from PMI. Check out the rest of the post here: [link].

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TimeCamp

MARCH 19, 2018

Maintaining Work-Life Balance Some people say that there is no such thing as a work-life.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 19, 2018

Dear reader, don’t be alarmed – this IS your regularly scheduled article! I’d like to thank Sante Vergini for providing the inspiration for the first topic and the second one had been a splinter in my mind so I couldn’t wait till next week to write about it. Why oh why would someone set up a virtual PMO? In one of my past articles , I had written about the challenges of establishing and running virtual PMOs.

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