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Perry A. Wilson, PMP, Project Management Consulting
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Project Management Blogs
What the heck did we do before the advent of blogs and twitter. I thought I’d list a few blogs and articles today that I follow for PM. Continue reading
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
Posted in execution, Professionalism
Tagged execution, leadership, Planning, project challenges, tips
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Project Training for non project managers
Now that I’m a consultant I’m often called on to provide training to non project managers. The audience is made up of people we would think of as subject matter experts or stakeholders. These people don’t want or need to know the details of earned value reporting, or know what step quality planning is in the process. They have been given projects, or they need toprojectize their job. Continue reading
Project data base for questions and answers
I received an email tell me to check out askaboutprojects. I’m naturally suspicious of unsolicited emails but then I looked closer, the email had come in response to my latest blog post – yay, someone is reading my posts. Continue reading
Posted in communication, Innovation, Tools
Tagged ideas, project challenges, solutions, tips
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Are you sure you trust the effort estimation?
To be honest, I often found myself questioning the reality of the estimates when I started my career in project management. The process wasn’t well managed – there was no consistent process to manage. Continue reading
Posted in Planning, Team management
Tagged estimating, Planning, project challenges, solutions, tips
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Why you should welcome conflict?
Most people would say they hate and avoid conflict. In this environment of staff cuts, there are probably a lot of people ducking conflict to keep under the radar. In my experience it’s not conflict, but confrontation that people hate. Continue reading
Posted in communication, organizational savvy, Team management
Tagged communication, solutions, tips, trust
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How to manage the schedule for a 1200 line project
I was at a PMI chapter event last week and the presenter asked how many people in the room had heard the term work breakdown structure. Only about a 3rd of the hands went up. I have to admit I was surprised at how many people hadn’t heard of it, we were all project managers after all. I did wonder, though, of the third who had heard of it, how many had used it. Continue reading
Posted in communication, Planning
Tagged communication, Planning, project challenges, solutions, tips
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Consultant, Contractor, or Employee
I am new to the consulting business. I worked for a great company for 32 years and when they restructured, it was my turn to go back into the real world, as we called it. I made the decision to become a consultant rather than look for a job because I realized I had a lot of broad experience and I wanted to offer my help to as many organizations as I could. Continue reading
Is there a difference between project management and people management?
People hear and understand things from their own perspective. That means you have to try to find a way to communicate outside your own perspective. Continue reading