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Category: Project Management

Blogs on project management

October 4, 2018October 4, 2018Agile, Leadership, Project Management

Conducting a Successful Brainstorming Meeting

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, […]

August 2, 2018Project Management

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

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.  […]

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018Project Management

Value of Visual Inspection

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 […]

June 3, 2018June 19, 2023Agile, Project Management

Project Portfolio Management: Simplify the Selection Process

Many organizations struggle with project portfolio management (PPM).  On the face of it, portfolio management should be easy.  We want to align our funding decisions […]

March 1, 2018March 5, 2018Project Management

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

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 […]

January 3, 2018January 5, 2018Project Management

Culture and Successful Projects

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 […]

December 1, 2017December 3, 2017Agile, Project Management

Eliminating Waste in Knowledge Work

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 […]

October 1, 2017September 28, 2017Agile, Leadership, Project Management

Effective Communications = Productive Project Teams

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 […]

September 1, 2017August 31, 2017Project Management

Stakeholder Management: A Key to Project Success

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 […]

August 1, 2017July 31, 2017Agile, Project Management

Agile and the Product Mindset

Adopting a product mindset is critical when transforming to an Agile development methodology, like Scrum. Shifting our thinking from project to product expands our view […]

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