Category Archives: manager
Manage Your Portfolio of Problems Part 1
Does your team and organization suffer from numerous problems and issues? Do more issues crop up each time you try to solve something? Managing your problems as a portfolio may help you. One of the keys to improving your team … Continue reading
Preparing for a Project Sponsor Meeting
Sponsors are critical to almost all projects. They’re the people who get budgets approved, they’re the ones who provide the energy and impetus for getting the business ready for the project. Yet PMs often seem to treat them like they’re … Continue reading
How to improve your productivity by using structure in your process
Once an organization reaches a certain size (say more then 30 people) it makes sense to set up a little bit of structure behind the way things are done. You often hear the objection “but we don’t need procedures or … Continue reading
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Compliance versus Support – The Chicken and the Egg
To bring some structure and consistency to projects (and business processes in general), audits or QA checks/gates are often performed to assess current practices and to enforce consistency. But in one of the great ironies, it is often necessary to … Continue reading
Getting Started In Risk Management
A client recently described an interesting situation – she had purchasing the new ISO31000 risk management standard, she had done the training with her team, conducted a risk identification and assessment workshop, and done the analysis and prioritization. Yet no … Continue reading
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Improve your PMO effectiveness by walking around
As a PMO member, probably one of the most productive things you could do for your customers is to get out from your desk and get into businessland. By physically staying in the PMO team area (and let’s face it … Continue reading
How to get promoted in 24 steps
There are a lot of books and many lengthy articles about how to get promoted. But rather than read through hours and hours of theoretical material, here are 24 ideas that will help you get promoted. Figure out if there … Continue reading
When to resign and find a better company
Why resign? It depends on what matters to you. Many people join the company but leave their boss. How much does your manager matter? There are loads of books, presentations, articles, websites and standards on building and maintaining a continually … Continue reading
