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Project Decision-Making

2 weeks 15 hours ago

Making good decisions is a critical project management skill.  The challenge is to create a fair, efficient, effective, and transparent process for our teams and stakeholders.  In a 

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Shift-Left, Shift-Right, Keep Middle

5 weeks 6 days ago

Shift-left is an Agile/DevOps call to action.  It signaled the need to address quality sooner.  As we adapt to the current dynamics, we should challenge standard paradigms and reevaluate when to execute project processes.

Timing is crucial for successful project outcomes. By shifting events earlier (left), later (right), or consistently doing others throughout the

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Effective Time Management for Project Teams

10 weeks 1 day ago

“Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.”  Peter Drucker 

Time is our only finite resource.  We cannot buy it or create it.  Therefore, we must spend it wisely.  Effective time management is a critical project management competency.  Regrettably, many teams lack these skills or discipline

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Effective Time Management for Project Teams

10 weeks 1 day ago

“Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.”  Peter Drucker 

Time is our only finite resource.  We cannot buy it or create it.  Therefore, we must spend it wisely.  Effective time management is a critical project management competency.  Regrettably, many teams lack these skills or discipline

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Effective Time Management for Project Teams

10 weeks 1 day ago

“Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.”  Peter Drucker 

Time is our only finite resource.  We cannot buy it or create it.  Therefore, we must spend it wisely.  Effective time management is a critical project management competency.  Regrettably, many teams lack these skills or discipline

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Project Management…Words Matter

13 weeks 4 days ago

Words matter.  Even in project management.

Words can carry meaning far beyond their formal definitions.  Connotation and perception can have unintended consequences.  

Even basic project management terms can create misunderstandings that can disrupt or derail a project.  In this article, I expose some linguistic pitfalls impacting the profession

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Highlight Tasks that are behind schedule on a MS Project Gantt Chart

16 weeks 1 day ago

Do you want to highlight tasks that are late on your Microsoft Project Lookahead schedule Gantt chart? Then follow the steps outlined in this video on how to format Bar Styles to draw focus to tasks that are late when compared to their baseline finish dates.

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Project Management & AI: Bring It On

24 weeks 4 days ago

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will transform project management.  Gartner estimated that AI may replace 80% of project management activities by 2030.  A recent  article in the Harvard Business Review described “

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Managing Project Assumptions & Risks

28 weeks 11 hours ago

We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily.  Without them, we would spend innumerable hours worrying about everything.  We assume our car will start.  Our air conditioner will work.  The weather forecast is accurate.  

These daily assumptions are banal.  Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly

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Project Success: Implementation AND Adoption

32 weeks 6 days ago

Software projects have two measures of success.  First, building and implementing working software.  Second, having people use and adopt it.  Project managers tend to focus their attention on delivering the application.  But the project’s real success rests on user adoption.   

Once, I led a large project.  The application was

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