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 […]
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Blogs on 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 […]
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 […]
Project Management: 10-Year Retrospective
I authored my first project management article 10 years ago. A mentor recommended I start writing to launch my transition from managing project organizations to […]
Hybrid Project Management: Part 2, What Changes?
We should view project management approaches as a palette of options. Predictive, Agile, and Lean/Kanban form the boundaries. Hybrid is the vast interior space. The […]