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There are just no words…
It’s been five days since Newtown… Someone on my project team had family in that school… In that room… Thank G-d the little one is ok… I have two of my own. One that age… All true… There are just no...
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The Accidental Implementation – When “Sooner or Later” is Not Enough
We’ve all worked on projects that never seemed to end – countless delays, slow motion decisions, scope that creeped and creeped and… But have you ever worked on one where your sponsor consciously chose...
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Project Management by Task List – Why It Never Works
Anyone that has ever worked with me on a project knows that I absolutely despise team member Task Lists. I think that writing down exactly WHAT everyone has to do by exactly WHEN and then distributing...
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Project Management Fantasies: What If There Was No Internal Audit Department?
What would you do if there was no Audit Department? What wouldn’t you do? (for this discussion, Audit are the folks who oversee your development/project process…SDLC Auditors – not financial auditors)....
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No Shades of Grey: In Praise of Binary Project Management
I have to admit – it does upset my wife and kids…I mean being as “black and white” as I’ve become. To me – as I assume to most project managers – it’s either “yes” or “no”… complete or not…approved or...
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Crashing the Schedule? Welcome to Jurassic Park!
So we all know I that love to use movie references to make a point about how we go about the practice of project management…though Jurassic Park may seem quite a stretch, it will make sense in a...
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Project Role Description – The PM as “The Synergist”
I don’t usually make it a practice to “commercially” mention specific products or services here on my little blog. Not really a conscious effort – just has been the case. Today, though, I will throw...
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Food For Thought: When “Getting It Off My Plate” Is Bad For Project Digestion
We’ve all heard this – either in project meetings or casual conversation: “Well – at least I’ve gotten that off of my plate…” What that usually means is that the speaker has taken some sort of action...
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Grieving For Our Failed Projects: It’s A Process
Ok – so we all remember the celebrations we had when our wildly successful projects came to an end. My personal favorite was the celebratory breakfast we had at one large financial institution when we...
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If There’s No “I” In Team, How Do You Spell “Initiative?” Part 1 of 2
Ok, I know – again with the really trite and annoying title…still – what I want to write about this week is a thought that perhaps all of us as Project Managers have had when it seems that every day we...
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If There’s No “I” In Team, How do you spell Initiative? Part 2 of 2
So when last we met, we were looking at the lack of initiative on some project teams and trying to figure out why they performed (didn’t really) in this manner. Toward this end, I posed the question:...
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Project Management Fantasies #2 – What If There Was No Issues List?
I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but it has often been my experience that a Project Issues List can take on certain magical qualities as the project progresses. The “magical” Issues List...
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PM Practices – The Project Management Abstract Question
Sorry I’ve been away from the blog a couple of weeks. Really had a good excuse, though – been working on the final stages of my first book. Should be out mid-late May…and I will be publicizing the...
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PM Consulting in Financial Services – It’s a Living
I’ve been helping a good friend work his way through his first ever engagement as a full-time “honest-to-g*d” project management consultant. This is a seasoned financial services professional who,...
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Industry Jargon 101: What is “Senior”
What would the financial services industry do without the word “Senior”? There are Senior Vice Presidents, Senior Analysts, Senior Teams, Senior Management…and of, course, Senior Project Managers… But...
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The Triple Constraints of Choosing a PM Consulting Engagement
So I’m currently in the process of wrapping up a two-year consulting engagement. And – as a professional project management consultant - my time now has to be divided equally between two very...
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At Long Last! My First Book –“NO PROJECT MANAGEMENT BY POWERPOINT” – is now...
I’ve been away from the blog for a long time, I know…Mostly because I was finishing up…then editing…and reviewing…and editing…and reviewing…and approving…my first book, entitled: No Project Management...
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More Efficient E-Mail Practices: Why I Love (and still cannot afford a) Ferrari:
Over the last year or so, I’ve written a couple of times about my pet peeves from the world of corporate email practices. Last December, I tried to explain how the overuse of the cc: function, both...
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The Hardest Part: Why All Recruiters Should Be Required To Listen to Tom...
We’ve all been through the recruiting process sometime in our career. Whether you were - at that point - currently employed and just curious about the job market, recently laid off (my new favorite...
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