Guild of Project Controls: Compendium | Roles | Assessment | Certifications | Membership

A Personal Retrospective

3 years 12 weeks ago

This year was like living through a 500-year storm.   COVID has infected 1 in 20 Americans, and 1 in 1,000 have died of the disease.  Nearly 15 million people are still out of work.  Thirty-three million have been remote

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Visualizing Risk

3 years 16 weeks ago

Mark is boarding a plane and heard one passenger in front remarked in jest that the chance of the aircraft reaching its destination is 50%.

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Work = Life Priorities

3 years 16 weeks ago

Balancing our work and home lives is a challenge that nearly everyone faces.  I was a single parent for many years and managed large teams and projects in Fortune 100 companies.  It was not always easy.  

Recently, I was talking to an old friend and former colleague.  When we worked together, she did not have children.  She remarked at how

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Business Agility: Getting Started

3 years 20 weeks ago

Agile is now part of the general business lexicon.  On the news, non-technology leaders keep mentioning the need to be “agile” or “pivot.”  Even leaders of traditional industries, like football, use the terminology to describe their approach to their complex business problems.

Agile is not magic, nor is it hard to learn.  This article shares two foundational

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2020 CANADA AND EVERYONE! STAY STRONG ALWAYS!

3 years 24 weeks ago
Many of us are blessed with many things in our life that we seldom appreciate. Sometimes they are huge and other times they are small. Regardless of magnitude, Thanksgiving Day is the time of the year that serves well as a reminder to be thankful. Appreciate what you come to have and even what you’ve lost. In risk-based management, both embody change that can lead to new
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Advanced Stakeholder Modeling

3 years 25 weeks ago

 

No matter your role, you are accountable to someone.  As we ascend the organizational ladder, stakeholder management becomes an increasingly more critical skill.

Stakeholder management is the ongoing process of identifying, evaluating, and engaging the people who are critical to our success.   Stakeholders are broadly defined as anyone

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Cost Estimating

3 years 26 weeks ago

1. Problem or Opportunity Statement

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Budgeting Continuous Improvements and Process Estimating

3 years 26 weeks ago

1. Problem or Opportunity Statement

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WBS Dictionary

3 years 26 weeks ago
Writing the Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary must be done right at the beginning of the project planning stages. This article shows how. https://bibloteka.com/how-to-create-a-professional-wbs-dictionary/
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Considering How We Think

3 years 29 weeks ago

We are living in interesting times. All countries are struggling to control the COVID-19 pandemic.  Societies are challenging their histories of racial and social injustice.  Fundamental beliefs are being scrutinized. Considering how we think and understanding our cognitive biases will be essential as we adjust to this “new normal.”     

What we

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