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Category: Project Management

Blogs on project management

Forming a Team? Plan for Success

Posted November 1, 2018November 5, 2018 Alan Zucker6 CommentsPosted in Agile, Leadership, Project Management

Remember the last time you joined a new team or organization.  What was it like?  Was it awkward?  Did you make decisions easily?  Were expectations clear?  Did the team gel […]

Conducting a Successful Brainstorming Meeting

Posted October 4, 2018October 4, 2018 Alan Zucker4 CommentsPosted in Agile, Leadership, Project Management

Well facilitated brainstorming sessions are amazing.  A creative, sharing atmosphere is built. Numerous ideas are generated.  Participants feel productive, valued, and are enthusiastic.  By contrast, poorly run meetings are horrible.  […]

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

Posted August 2, 2018 Alan ZuckerLeave a commentPosted in Project Management

Ben Franklin was a an American founding father, inventor, diplomat, and philosopher.  He also wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac which contained information for farmers and timeless adages.  When it comes to project […]

Value of Visual Inspection

Posted July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 Alan ZuckerLeave a commentPosted in Project Management

Recently, my wife and I took a trip.  We were at the airport.  Our flight was delayed.  She was sitting with her back to the window and checking the flight’s […]

Project Portfolio Management: Simplify the Selection Process

Posted June 3, 2018June 3, 2018 Alan ZuckerLeave a commentPosted in Agile, Project Management

Many organizations struggle with project portfolio management (PPM).  On the face of it, portfolio management should be easy.  We want to align our fi\unding decisions to the organization’s strategic objectives.  […]

Learning to Love the PMBOK®–It Wasn’t Easy

Posted March 1, 2018March 5, 2018 Alan Zucker4 CommentsPosted in Project Management

Years ago, I begrudgingly took my project management certification (PMP®) exam.  I passed.  Almost a decade later, I now teach PMP® preparation classes and see the value of the Project […]

Culture and Successful Projects

Posted January 3, 2018January 5, 2018 Alan Zucker1 CommentPosted in Project Management

Project management has a consistent and unimpressive performance record.  The Standish Group’s on-going survey of project performance finds the percentage of projects that were deemed “successful” has hovered in the […]

Eliminating Waste in Knowledge Work

Posted December 1, 2017December 3, 2017 Alan Zucker3 CommentsPosted in Agile, Project Management

Many of us are “knowledge workers.” We do not physically create a product. We work in areas that are important to our enterprise, but do not directly serve customers. We […]

Effective Communications = Productive Project Teams

Posted October 1, 2017September 28, 2017 Alan ZuckerLeave a commentPosted in Agile, Leadership, Project Management

Effective communications are the cornerstone to successful projects and productive teams.   The Agile Manifesto extolls the virtues of collaboration, individual interactions, and face-to-face communications. Projects represent our ability to coordinate […]

Stakeholder Management: A Key to Project Success

Posted September 1, 2017August 31, 2017 Alan Zucker3 CommentsPosted in Project Management

Projects with involved stakeholders are far more likely to be successful. But many projects suffer from low engagement from executives, users, and key stakeholders. The PMI’s Pulse of the Profession […]

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