Projects…Start with What & Why
What are we doing? And why are we doing it? These are the first two critical questions that must be asked at the start of […]
Category: Project Management
Blogs on project management
Agile Project Planning
Agile planning should be simple. Agile embraces flexibility, adaptability, and incremental delivery. Therefore, planning processes are designed to be lightweight and time-efficient. Many organizations struggle […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]