Tag Archives: Lessons

Learning from each other

Hi, as PMs we learn from each other as much as from formal training and education. LinkedIn has some great PM groups, and there are PM blogs galore. There is one online question database that I’ve been tweeting about all week that I thought I would blog about and hopefully grab a few more followers. Continue reading

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Success Measures – try a new approach?

Hi, we all have our set success criteria for projects: on or under budget, on time, within scope. But, what if you made one new criterion every project. Continue reading

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Keeping balance in your life

I think the topic is applicable to everyone who works. Whether you work for someone or for yourself. You do your best work when you are energized and excited. You can only be energized and excited if you have balance in your life – as a colleague of mine says, you need to fill your buckets before you can do a great job. Continue reading

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Using your lessons learned. How to make the next project easier

We all know the value of using lessons learned from other projects,but how often do we get to use them?

What gets in the way?

I know it’s often difficult to find the lessons learned on any project, let alone a project that is comparable to the one you are about to start.Time,or lack of it, often gets in the way of thinking about any lessons you might want to implement in your new projects. And, organizational assumptions can seem like a barrier to making changes: “we’ve always done it this way and there’s really no way to make it better in this company”. Continue reading

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