Category Archives: Professionalism

Time and Stress Management – lessons relearned

I’ve been blog absent for almost 2 weeks – just 2 hours short of two weeks. It’s been a crazy two weeks: dad passed away and I moved. Dad went quickly and in his sleep. We know he wasn’t going to make it so we were able to say goodbye and we are all very sad when we think about it. The move went well from the perspective of the moving, but the place was so dirty I couldn’t unpack. Then I went away for two days to work with a client. So it’s been more than a week, and I just unpacked the last box today. Continue reading

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The Art of Project Management

Have you ever watched a PM be successful without an apparent methodology? Is this an example of good project management or lucky project management? Continue reading

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Asking the right questions

I have been looking on LinkedIn a lot lately and trying to answer some of the questions raised in discussions. I found it hard to give a useful suggestion most of the time because the question was not asked with enough context.

Asking questions is a skill. For a consultant, PM or a business analyst, it’s a critical skill. Continue reading

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Writing Articles for increased visibility

Hi, the great thing about the Internet is that access to everything is easy. The not so great thing about the Internet is – you guessed it – access to everything is easy. The key is put out useful information, products or services and then to get the right people to pay attention to what you have put out there. Continue reading

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How Project Management Can Help You With Any Business

No matter what business you are in, you have goals and intentions. From the largest corporation to the smallest home-based business, projects are being started every day. Without proper management of these projects, all the effort, time, and money are wasted. Continue reading

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Earning PDUs – Free

Hi, those of us with our PMP designation know the PDU stress. Some leave it to the last minute, some gather PDUs over their three year cycle. But, what ever approach you use, you can have a choice of paying for them in money or time. Continue reading

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Gathering requirements is it ever complete?

The dream of gathering absolutely complete requirements is just that, a dream.You will find no matter how detailed or complete, or ‘approved as final’ your rquirements are, things will change. That isn’t a failure of the requirements, it’s a fact of project mangagement. If you try to perfect the beginning, you’ll never start your developement or build phase. Continue reading

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Contractor or Consultant

I’ve been giving some thought this week to the idea of developing and deepening project management skills in an organization. During the latest cycle of downsizing, a number of companies questioned why they needed dedicated project managers. They asked, “why can’t my department managers do that job?” Continue reading

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How do you add value to your client?

One of the questions that comes up on discussion boards and with clients is what does the Project Manager do? I have to say I’ve had my struggles in answering this question in the past. I’ve been chatting with clients … Continue reading

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Issue management or Firefighting

The challenge for Project Managers is to keep the project moving through challenges – or identify when the project shouldn’t keep moving forward. If the PM is skilled in issue management they can navigate the daily issues (or hourly issues) on any project. If they aren’t as skilled, the project goes into firefighting mode. Continue reading

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