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Is your project team a sales force in disguise?

May 14, 2012

This is a guest post by Jon Swain, President of Ten Six Consulting. Strong project sponsorship is critical to ensuring that your project is a success. One of the roles of a sponsor is to champion the project and the project team. This includes making sure the project gets the recognition and resources it requires. [...]

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What’s the Profile of a Good Project Manager?

April 2, 2012

This is a guest post by Ben Snyder, CEO of project management training and consultancy firm Systemation. Management often wishes it had a very clear mechanism for identifying candidates who will turn out to be better-than-average project managers. They know that having to rely on their gut works fairly well but still feel there must [...]

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Seven Stupid Mistakes Managers Make (and What to Do Instead)

February 20, 2012

This is a guest post by Darryl Rosen, author of Table for Three? Bringing Your Smart Phone to Lunch and 50 Dumb Mistakes Smart Managers Don’t Make! You’re a manager and you glance down at an incoming text while an employee is talking to you. DUMB! Or you bark “Just get it done!” to your [...]

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The Project Manager and the Business Analyst – a Perfect Mix or the Perfect Storm?

November 16, 2011

This is a guest post by Penny Pullan, Director, Making Projects Work. Project manager and business analyst: both are key roles in today’s projects. The business analyst knows and understands the business needs and the project manager delivers a solution to meet those needs. It seems like a perfect mix, or is it? I’m Penny [...]

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Will Project Management Software Solve the Project Failure Problem?

September 14, 2011

This is a guest post by Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx. Despite the myriad advances made in project management technology in recent years, project failure rates continue to be through the roof. Each year, the CHAOS Report findings that are published by The Standish Group are dismal. The Standish Group’s 2011 CHAOS Study shows that [...]

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Do Women Make The Best Project Managers?

September 2, 2011

      This is a guest post by Michelle Symonds, on behalf of Parallel Project Training. Clearly, men and women are different and deal with situations differently in the workplace. The skills that they naturally excel at rarely coincide and it is the innate talents of women that help to make them better project [...]

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Ask the Smart PM: Networking Within the Organization

July 18, 2011

This is a guest post by Conrado Morlan, the Smart PM. Dear Smart PM… I am a new hire at the project management office of a large corporation. I had been working in project management for several years as a freelancer. Although I consider myself to be a good networker, I found difficulties networking within [...]

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Project Meetings: 3 Steps to Maximize Efficiency

April 20, 2011

This is a guest post by Kathlika Thomas, head writer for the IT Project Blog. Impromptu project meetings are easy enough to schedule and can be useful, especially for getting quick responses from a client or from a technical resource when needed. However, ad hoc sessions can be time wasters, too. More often than not, the wrong people [...]

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Project Management, Women, and India

March 23, 2011
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This is a guest post by Soma Bhattacharya, the project manager behind Stepping into Project Management. I returned home to India to find it very different from what I had left behind 6 years ago. India is growing everyday and considered the hub of outsourcing for IT and other domains. I grew up in a [...]

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The Value of Contract Management Fundamentals for Every Project Manager

January 31, 2011

This is a guest post by Rick Graham, an instructor with ESI International. During the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Ford Motor Corporation constructed the world’s largest industrial complex along the banks of the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford’s vision of mass production included not only the first production lines, but also [...]

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