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project management

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 [...]

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Join the Virtual Working Summit!

June 16, 2010

Is your project team scattered all over the place, and most of your meetings done on the phone?  Many project managers lead a virtual team and getting the best out of people and their time can be a challenge when you are not based in the same office. You can learn how to do work [...]

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Lean, Six Sigma and Project Management together

April 28, 2010

I attended my first PMI UK Chapter meeting recently and the topic was Lean Six Sigma and Project Management: A Marriage Made in Heaven? I’m not sure what marriage had to do with it, but the presenter, Ishai Perelman, PMP, Master Black Belt and a senior managing consultant with Pcubed, certainly pointed out the links [...]

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Training your project sponsor

August 4, 2008

Unfortunately you might not be able to choose someone as your project sponsor who meets all the criteria that I mentioned last Monday – that is, if you have the luxury of being able to choose at all. Most likely you’ll just get lumped with someone and you’ll have to do your best to work [...]

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What makes a good project sponsor?

July 28, 2008

Having a good, active project sponsor is one of the ways you can ward off project failure. So if you are in the enviable situation of being able to choose who you have as your project sponsor, you need to look for someone who will do a good job. And what sort of person is [...]

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Project Sponsor FAQ

July 21, 2008

Craig Brown has been writing about the job description of a project sponsor over at Better Projects. I have pulled together an FAQ for project sponsors, which you can use if you’re having difficulty explaining to someone what a project sponsor actually does. Why does a project need a sponsor? To support the project team [...]

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Carnival of Project Management #21

July 2, 2008

Welcome to the June/July 2008 edition of carnival of project management. Yes, we’re going bi-monthly, so the next edition will be August/September. To tide you over until then, here are the entries for this edition. Rich Maltzman, PMP presents The Big Yellow Taxi of Project Management posted at Scope crêpe, saying, “They paved paradise…” John [...]

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