Fri.Jul 22, 2016

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Strategic weakness

Musings on Project Management

And when your strategy depends on someone else doing something that's pretty weak strategy Jeff Roe. Politcal strategist Well, yes, but no. Certainly, self-sufficiency is the better game plan, but who gets to play in that green field? Certainly not PMs which are at the behest of sponsors, customers, and other business interests. If they don't behave and get on the same page with the.

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From The PMI Power Talks [Video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s my video diary of the PMI Power Talks this week (about 4 minutes, safe for work). Hosted by the PMI UK Chapter in London, the Power Talks brought together 4 fantastic speakers for an afternoon of discussion and debate focused on strategy execution. I think this is the link to the replay of the event: https://thepmchannel.vimsy.co/collection/53/pmi-strategy-execution-powertalks but it was all afternoon so be prepared to flick through the video as you don’t want to be sitting th

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Using Peoples' Skills

The Tao of Project Management

Last week I mentioned Johnny Beirne and his excellent Project Management Paradise web site at projectmanagementparadise.com. He talks to me about my approach to project management on episode 5 if you would like to hear my thoughts. One of which was on peoples' skills. Using Peoples' Skills When it comes to project team members, it is quite normal that some will be better at certain things than others.

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