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PM approaches

How do you deal with a bad day?

January 23, 2012

In this video I ask 9 project managers how they deal with a bad day at work. With thanks to Todd, Samad, Nathaniel, Cindy, Adrienne, Cornelius, Taryn, Dave and Melanie. Filmed on location at PMI Global Congress North America 2011 in Dallas/Fort Worth.

How to be a PMO Leader: Book Review of Leading Successful PMOs

December 14, 2011

Project managers have to be project leaders as well, at least some of the time. But what happens when you want to take the next step and lead a PMO? Peter Taylor’s new book, Leading Successful PMOs, explains. He discusses the PMO that he led at Siemens. It was a three year journey. They began [...]

Why you should assume positive intent

October 19, 2011

Students coming to study in London for the new university term will quickly realise that in the capital you generally do not assume positive intent. In fact, Not Assuming Positive Intent is the default. You assume that other commuters will fight you for the last tube seat. You assume that your pockets will get picked [...]

Use your experts

September 28, 2011

The best thing about going to the hairdressers is having someone wash my hair. The second best thing is being able to sit there for an hour and be lost in my thoughts while someone makes me beautiful. I don’t talk to my hairdresser about holidays or work, and we have fallen into companionable silence. [...]

The Leadership Attitude

September 7, 2011

There has been a notable shift in recent years to talking about project leadership, as distinct from project management. Management, as the saying goes, is about doing things right, and leadership is about doing the right things. In reality, both leadership and management are often done by the same person – the project manager. But [...]

Managing up: how to help your managers help you

May 25, 2011

One of the questions I’m often asked is: “How do I get taken seriously at work?” And over my career I have asked myself that question as well. One way to build credibility in the workplace was explained by Dr Lynda Bourne recently at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin. Let’s talk about managing [...]

Focus on project management outcomes, not processes

April 6, 2011

We’ve been doing some thinking at work recently about how to improve the project management processes. The processes aren’t terrible, but it’s good to review them every so often to see how the rest of the business has changed and how we should keep up. However, project management outcomes are more important than processes. Processes [...]

Villanova Friday: The conclusions

April 1, 2011

This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Villanova Friday

For the last 8 weeks I have been taking the Maximising IT/IS Team Effectiveness course with Villanova University. I’ve been blogging about my experiences of the virtual learning environment in this series. Over the years I have tried classroom courses, a weekend project management courses and distance learning. The Villanova experience added to the range [...]

Zombie Project Management

September 15, 2010

Last week I published a project management alphabet, and I admit it, I had a hard time coming up with terms for some of the less common letters. I ended up using Zombie Project Management for the letter Z. So, what is Zombie PM? Does this sound like someone you know? They do exactly what [...]

The Risk Doctor at the Experts’ Forum

July 12, 2010

“The risk people are the business prevention people,” said David Hillson, at the beginning of his presentation at the Gower Experts’ Forum at the National Centre for Project Management. He pointed out that the results from the 2009 CHAOS report aren’t that much better than those when CHAOS started out: last year the survey reported [...]

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