Project Management Solutions that Help You Get the Job Done!
It’s a Project Manager’s World Newsletter.
Sigh up for the newsletter in the sidebar.
Practical applications that can help you achieve success in both project management and organizational leadership.
Newsletter Archive
May, 2017:Project Portfolio Management: Understanding Where Your Program is Today
March/April 2017:Project Portfolio Management: Assessing Where Your Program Has Been
February, 2017:Project Reserve: Eight Tips You Should Know
January, 2017:Accountability – Do you work with sideline vultures?
December, 2016:Framing Success – Four Tips for Program Managers
November, 2016:Project Managers or Bean Counters?
October, 2016:A Program Manager’s Perspective on Recognition
September, 2016:Ten Process Strategy Keys for Program Managers
August, 2016:Team Building – What this Cookbook Can Teach You
July, 2016:Program and Project Management Roles
June, 2016:Change Management – Make your stakeholders feel like a winner
May, 2016:Focus on the Goal, not the Constraint
April, 2016:Project Status – Give Your Organization a Grade
March, 2016:Busy, but not important work – the consequences
February, 2016:Consistency – A Critical Leadership Trait
January, 2016:Personal Productivity – Improve it with Deep Work
December, 2015:The Seven Gym Personalities You Must Deal with at Work
November, 2015:Noisemakers, Great for Parties, Not for Projects
October, 2015:Book Review – Start Everything Finish Nothing
September, 2015:How to Identify Project Stakeholders
August, 2015:Metric Manipulation
July, 2015:Situational Leadership and the Plastic Lawnmower
June, 2015:Wooden on Leadership – Book Review
May, 2015:Contract Project Manager? What you Need to Know – Part 4
April, 2015:Contract Project Manager? What you Need to Know – Part 3
March, 2015:Contract Project Manager? What you Need to Know – Part 2
February, 2015:Contract Project Manager? What you Need to Know – Part 1
January, 2015:Book Review – Magic Words by Tim David
December, 2014:Project Status – The Real Truth?
November, 2014:Inconvenience or Obstacle
October, 2014:Project Failure and Lava Flow – Painfully Predictable
September, 2014:Project Management Tools – Content is King!
August, 2014:The 4-C Failure Cycle ™
July, 2014:Leadership with Ultimate Awareness: What a Top Chef can Teach You
June, 2014:Hurrying to Project Failure
May, 2014:Interfaces – A Focus of the Successful Program Manager
March, 2014:Risk Mitigation Early execution is better, but we love later
February, 2014:Program Manager Leadership Traits – Presence
December, 2013:Is the PMBOK cursed? Yes if you believe less is better and more is worse!
November, 2013:The Chicken and Egg Question in Portfolio Management
October, 2013:Accountability – What some think is more is really less
September, 2013:How to Communicate Bad News to Leaders: Always Whisper First
August, 2013:Leading People with Seagull Mentality
June 2013:Avoid Over Committing Yourself and the Team
May, 2013:Assuring Commitment – The Number Three Project Manager Success Factor
April, 2013:Relationship Building – The Number Two Project Manager Success Factor
March, 2013:Accountability – The Number One Project Manager Success Factor
February, 2013:Project Manager Success Factors
January, 2013:Project Management Tactics for TBD – To Be Determined
December, 2012:Change Management Tools: Are you a fiend about client focus?
November, 2012:Project Management Tools: Sophistication Does Not Mean Success?
October, 2012:Why is Risk Identification so Important in Project Management?
September 2012:Are you a Free Range Project Managerâ„¢ or are you Caged by Too Much Process?
August 2012:Have you suffered from Project Failure due to being victim of a “Bait Project”?
July, 2012:Should All of an Organization’s Project Managers be Highly Capable?
June, 2012:Do you have the Honey Badger Traits for Project Management Excellence?
May, 2012:Knowing the Customer, Hollow Words or Real Investment?
April, 2012:Are You or Your Organization’s Executives Velvet Rope Leaders?
March, 2012:Should a Project Manager have an assistant?
January, 2012:One Dark Side of Outsourcing
October, 2011:Eleven Words and Six Steps to Effective Project Scheduling
September, 2011:The Truth About Work-Life Balance
August, 2011:Why you should never “Dumb It Down for the Customer
July, 2011:As a project manager do you have to look like a leader?
June, 2011:Seven Actions This Program Manager Took
April, 2011:Book Review: The Program Manager The Bull Leading the Charge, Richard Hardy
March, 2011:Natural Accountability Generation
February 2011:Agile: To Be or not To Be
January 2011:Trends and Truths
September 2010:Why Reputations are Becoming a Reality in the Digital Landscape
August 2010:An Overlooked Strategy for Assigning Project Managers
July 2010:Should a Leader Repeat Themselves
June 2010:Equality is Overrated
May 2010:Six Leadership Actions that Made this Project Successful
April 2010:Is Your Focus a Fallacy?
March 2010:Book Review – The Power of Many: Values for Success in Business and Life
February 2010:Book Review – Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It
December 2009:The Need for Speed
November 2009:A Tale of Two Experts
October 2009:Book Review – Managing, by Henry Mintzberg
August 2009:Calculated Failure
June 2009:Book Review – Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity, Hugh MacLeod
May 2009:The Importance of Feedback
April 2009:Book Review – Scrappy Project Management
March 2009:Is the PMBOK Really a Standard?
February 2009:What is your project’s planning horizon?
January 2009:Cost Cutting is Not Cost Savings – How Good is Your Leadership?
December 2008:Milestones in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
November 2008:Book Review – The One Page Project Manager
October 2008:Are You Spending Too Much Time on Project Administration?
September 2008:Who is the Most Important Stakeholder Group?
August 2008:Why is a book on the brain in the top 25 of Amazon’s leadership books?
July 2008:Why Your Project Management Methodology Doesn’t Matter Much
June 2008:Bozorrific to be added to 4th edition of the PMBOK in December 2008…
April 2008:Writing Better Requirements by Ian F. Alexander and Richard Stevens
March 2008:Anticipation: The Greatest Project Management Skill (Part 4)
February 2008:Anticipation: The Greatest Project Management Skill (Part 3)
November 2007:Anticipation: The Greatest Project Management Skill (Part 2)
August 2007:Do You Have the Greatest Project Management Ability?
