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May 1, 2025May 2, 2025Leadership, Project Management

Creating Accountability

At the beginning of my project management classes, I ask participants if they have any big, burning questions.  Accountability always tops the list.  Project managers […]

April 1, 2025Agile

Reports of Agile’s Death are Exaggerated

Amid swirling rumors that Mark Twain was gravely ill, a journalist wrote to inquire about his health. The ever-witty Twain responded, “Reports of my death […]

March 2, 2025March 3, 2025Agile, Project Management

The Economics of Project Management Certification

I earned a master’s degree in economics and worked in the field for a few years before shifting to project management. Despite the shift, I […]

February 1, 2025February 1, 2025Leadership

The Cookie Post…Great Leadership

Sometimes, great leadership appears effortless.  The leader’s actions seem intuitive and simple, yet the impact is powerful.  I was inspired by US Navy Captain Chris […]

January 3, 2025Agile, Hybrid, Project Management

Earned Work: Measuring Project Performance

Earned Work Management is a lightweight, approach-agnostic project performance measurement system that supports Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban. This allows organizations employing different project approaches to […]

December 2, 2024Agile, Hybrid, Project Management

Intentional Project Management

Meteorologists are better at predicting the weather than project managers are at delivering projects.  About a third of projects are delivered on time, on budget, […]

November 1, 2024November 3, 2024Project Management

Scaling Your Project Management Career

Project managers ascend the career ladder based on accumulated experience-derived wisdom and managing progressively larger and more complicated efforts.  A typical trajectory involves moving from […]

October 4, 2024Leadership, Project Management

Are We Aligned?

Stakeholder alignment—or lack thereof—can be the difference between project success and failure. In today’s dynamic business environment, projects face multiple stakeholders and constituencies. Often, these […]

September 1, 2024December 30, 2024Agile, Hybrid, Project Management

Hybrid Project Management: Part 4, Picking the Practices

Hybrid projects are not constrained by a single methodology or well-defined framework.  By definition, they are a melding melding of practices.  A huge responsibility accompanies […]

August 1, 2024December 30, 2024Agile, Hybrid, Project Management

Hybrid Project Management: Part 3, Picking the Approach

A project manager’s first major decision is selecting the approach and lifecycle.  Historically, this was a non-issue.  The default option was preordained based on the […]

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