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Helping the Business Analyst Helps Your Project
Back in May 2009, I talked about value of the Business Analysts (BA) to a company and a project in facilitating communication among stakeholders, making certain that users are effectively represented in requirements definition and testing of software products, and bringing a broader context to the project. (Business Analysts – [...] Read More......(read more)
Managing a Remote Team—Changing Business as Usual
Organizations choose to use remote workers to save money and to access niche skills. Individuals choose to act as remote workers to achieve opportunity, freedom, and flexibility. It is usually a win-win situation. However, project managers have some extra challenges in successfully executing projects that use remote employees. Back in July, [...] Read More......(read more)
How to Grow Communities of Practice
Change is a constant in a project manager’s world (well really in everyone’s world!). People who fail to learn—to increase their understanding and skills—find adapting to changing conditions and requirements challenging, if not impossible. Just as individuals need constantly to learn, so do organizations. One of the most effective ways [...] Read More......(read more)
RESPECT – How NOT to be the Rodney Dangerfield of Project Management
Do you go around saying “I get no respect!”? Project managers who say they are not getting respect usually mean that their comments, warnings, suggestions, and requests do not change the behavior of those they work with and for. Perhaps that is true. However, it is also possible that the power distribution [...] Read More......(read more)
Good Project Plan Schedules
I had a great conversation this week about one of my earlier posts on creating effective and predictive project schedules. It appears this subject is one of the common topics used in the maturity models being utilized these days. So I thought I would give another perspective on creating a good [...] Read More......(read more)
Toyota’s Lesson for Project Managers
Manage projects for learning while coping with uncertainty Read More......(read more)
What Is Going on with Toyota
Business intelligence software might save Toyota. Let's hope that is the case. Read More......(read more)
How project managers should work with support organizations
Inside the nether regions of large companies lurk individuals and offices that are part of executing a project but reside organizationally outside of the project’s chain of command. Placed within the somewhat amorphous group of support organizations are specialists in IT, travel, legal, facilities, HR and many more. A project manager [...] Read More......(read more)
The Accidental Project Manager – Part 2
Or, Improving the Perceived Value of Project Management
In Part 1, we talked about how some people end up with the title “project manager”. It sometimes seems that organizations created the position of project manager so they will have someone to ask about project status and someone to blame when a [...] Read More......(read more)
IBN 4.7.60: Upgraded Interface and Related Todo
IBN 4.7.59: Upgraded Interface and Related Todo
Mediachase announces the release of the new IBN 4.7 build 4.7.60. The distributive is available at the “Distributives” section of the site.
Interface changes are among the most essential features of the new IBN build. There is a wide range of interface related changes. For example, HTML tags can now be used as field values of a dictionary, and there are new constants “Tomorrow” and “Next Week” in list filters for the fields of the type “Date”.
Some changes have been made to IBN objects: there is a new project status “Cancelled”, and there is a new option to add predecessors and successors for a todo (before the latest option was available for tasks only).
Traditionally, we have made some minor changes and fixed some errors. The full list of the most recent changes is in the “Changes” file. We strongly recommend updating your IBN Server to the 4.7.60build.
The Accidental Project Manager – Part 1
Did you hear the one about Jim? It seems that the boss called the project team together and asked a volunteer to step forward to manage the project. Instantly, everyone but Jim (because they knew the drill) stepped back. Congratulations Jim, you are now a project manager.
I am appalled when I encounter [...] Read More......(read more)
Project Management and Social Networking
Dr. Karen McGraw, founder and CEO of Cognitive Technologies, recently published a very thoughtful article for project managers in PM World called, “The Social Project Team: Using Social Collaboration & Networking to Enhance Project Success”. In the article, she addressed: Facilitating informal learning through collaboration and social networking. Did you know [...] Read More......(read more)
Project Team Member Development
Happy New Year! I have taken some time off during the transition to 2010 and hope you have been able to take some time with your family and friends also. I want to continue my discussion on careers and share the 3rd in the series on Career development.
One of the most rewarding [...] Read More......(read more)
Career Planning Resources for Project Managers
People often think about where your project management career is going when they hit one of those “X0” birthday milestones (20, 30, 40, 50, and 60). Something about transitioning to the next decade in our life causes us to reflect on where we are and where we are going in the time [...] Read More......(read more)
Calling Project Managers – Is Your Career on Track
I am not intending to provoke smart comments such as “track, what track? I thought that light was a train coming at me.” — even though that may be tempting. However, the train track is a good metaphor for your career, especially when you consider that there are many routes to a [...] Read More......(read more)
Brown Bag Training
Project managers worry about getting tasks done to tight schedule constraints. Everyone is always busy and suggesting that you and your team take time for training that is not directly related to project tasks might not be an appealing recommendation. I understand. However, I also believe that a break in the [...] Read More......(read more)
Tips for Project Managers Helping out on Proposals
Proposal managers and senior staff often seek out project managers as domain experts to help write sections of proposals either for potential clients or in response to government request-for-proposals (RFPs). No one pretends that this is going to fun; it just has to be done if you want to keep getting [...] Read More......(read more)
What to do when everyone leaves town for the Holiday
There are disruptive technologies that completely throw businesses off track and then there are holidays that can be disruptive to project management. The time from Thanksgiving through New Years is a disruptive time when almost all workers will want time off to be with their families. In my experience, it is [...] Read More......(read more)
How to pitch a new idea to management
This week I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of Project Management Professionals in Dallas at their company’s PM forum. One of the questions that was posed to me was how to approach management with an idea or process improvement. So in this week’s blog I offer some tips on [...] Read More......(read more)
Getting a PMO Right is Worth the Effort
I want to say thanks to the PMO Sig for the PMO Symposium they held this week in Atlanta! It was informative and had some really good information on how to setup and improve PMOs. This week I wanted to share some thoughts on getting your PMO right.
The Project Management Office [...] Read More......(read more)
The Importance of Continuing Your Project Management Education
New project managers can learn to be good project managers and good project managers can learn to be better. And PMO staff members should continuosly find out what the latest tools and techniques are in the industry! I believe this because I have seen it and I have practiced it. This [...]...(read more)
Rethinking Project Success and Failure
I think we have an issue in the field of project management. Defining project success and failure only in terms of on-time and on-budget performance is simplistic and wrong. Software projects are about solving problems for customers. I have seen countless resumes from aspiring project managers and performance reviews that [...]...(read more)
Project Managers–What Does Your Team Want From You?
There are character traits that most of us would like to believe we possess and that we want to find in the people we work with and work for: trust, integrity, respect, and honesty—sort of like the mantra of the Boy Scouts. Good project managers have those traits and others that make [...]...(read more)
Software Usability – Resources for Usability Evaluation
I had an interesting discussion with several people this week that I could summarize this way: “How does software get designed and built that no-one can use?” “Usability is the combination of fitness for purpose, ease of use, and ease of learning that makes a product effective.” according to the University [...]...(read more)
Friction-Free Collaboration
Yammer removes the friction in company-wide collaboration....(read more)
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