May, 2010

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Don’t get caught between your Vendor and a Hard Place

Guerrilla Project Management

The reputations of many great project managers were ruined because their projects failed due to their mismanagement of vendors. The biggest mistake project managers make in discerning the status of their project is to rely solely on vendor status reports. These reports give only one version of the project’s progress. And that version happens to.

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What I know for sure

Guerrilla Project Management

A project manager asked this question on askaboutprojects.com: “I am a new project manager working on my first project as project manager. Can someone please share the examples of challenges they faced in projects” I gave the following advice before and I think it is appropriate for this question: The biggest challenge you will face.

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Sorry seems to be the hardest word

Guerrilla Project Management

Sometimes, to break an impasse on your project you may need to say you are sorry, whether you are right or not and whether the other person is right or not. This is hard. Saying “I’m sorry” is hard because it challenges our natural need to protect ourselves. Our ego has been engineered to protect.

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How to become an All-Terrain Project Manager

Guerrilla Project Management

The more successful projects you deliver, the more likely it is that your management or clients will call upon you to lead more complex projects that are outside your repertoire of skills and even beyond your domain of technical expertise. When you deliver the goods on these projects, success will strengthen your self-confidence and enhance.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Agile Practices in Large System Integration Projects

Guerrilla Project Management

The reality of organizations is that they don’t come in a very neatly packaged configuration to which we can apply a single project management methodology. I spoke a couple weeks ago at an Oracle users group conference about my experience applying Agile practices in a large Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) upgrade project. From discussions with.

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