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Perry A. Wilson, PMP, Project Management Consulting
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Making decisions, the project manager’s challenge
Often the project manager is in the middle of a push and pull about decisions. Everyone wants to get started, but key decisions aren’t made. How do you keep everyone engaged when this is happening?
I find this one to be the most interesting challenge, and the one linked tightly to corporate culture. Continue reading
Posted in execution, organizational savvy
Tagged consulting, initiation, project challenges, solutions, tips
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Project management blog recommendation
If you don’t follow the Papercut Edge, I highly recommend you give it a try. The current series of posts are all about the 9 types of PM behaviour that you don’t want to see. Continue reading
Project Management Questions
A short post today – I’m all done in from tramping around 17 heritage sites today. That’s 10 locations, one had 5 units to show, 2 had 2 units and a bonus, there was an open house in one of the units. So, it was great but tiring.
This post is about places to ask and find answers to your PM questions. Places on line, other than Google searches. Continue reading
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
Posted in communication, Innovation, motivation, Professionalism
Tagged communication, consulting, execution, management, motivation, tips
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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
Posted in communication, Professionalism, self employment
Tagged communication, consulting, Information, requirements, solutions, tips
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Mergers, successful transition
I’ve worked on four successive credit union mergers and each time we developed looser success criteria. The reason we did this is integration and success on mergers is complicated and we found the tighter you tried to control it, the less successful we became.
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Posted in communication, execution
Tagged communication, estimating, ideas, Innovation, leadership, Planning, success, tips
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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
Project Management blogs
Hi, all. This week is a short post. I often go looking for other people’s PM blogs to get inspiration for mine, some specialist information, or some insight into what people are talking about in project management. Continue reading
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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Tagged execution, leadership, project challenges, requirements, tips
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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
Posted in execution, motivation, Professionalism, self management
Tagged ideas, leadership, tips
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