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10 Practical Ways Sponsors Can Boost Their Project Success
By Harry Hall
I often ask project managers the reasons for project failure. One of the top responses is a lack of leadership and sustained engagement by the project sponsor. The sponsor paints a fuzzy picture of what they want, throws it over the fence to the project […]

How Transparent Are You?
By Kiron D. Bondale
PMI’s Code of Ethics clearly illustrates the value placed on transparency in the project management profession – both the Honest and Fairness sections of the Code contain standards which echo the importance of this attribute. This includes transparency in decision-making as well as being truthful, accurate and timely in […]

A Tale of Terror and Delight: How Time Tracking Improved this Project Manager’s Life
By Kristyn Medeiros
When I walked in to my PMO Manager’s office and sat down for our one-on-one, I was not expecting to hear the one sentence I never wanted to hear. “We’re going to start tracking project time.” Nooooo! My boss tried […]

My 10 Golden Rules for Effective Project Delivery
By Ron Rosenhead
I was running a project management course when someone said to me: ‘Ron, what are your golden rule for effective project delivery?’
What a great question. I picked up a marker pen and wrote the following on a flip chart. Here are my golden rules which should […]

Do You Have Good “PM Hygiene?” Four Questions That Will Help You Improve Your PM Routines
By Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, Founder, Cheetah Learning
When Project Managers establish effective routines for both their own daily work and for managing their teams, they also develop healthy Project Management “hygiene.” This “hygiene” metaphor relates to having consistent processes in place […]

Where Leadership Is Languishing
By Sal Provino
The paradigm surrounding leadership has shifted in a big way. So much so that the corporate generation gap is wider than it ever has been in the history of modern business. Those who opposed authority twenty years ago are now sitting in a leadership position struggling to make sense of […]

Project Management Lessons Our Grandparents Taught Us!
By Kiron D. Bondale
What are the most impactful ways to learn about project management?
We tend to think of the experience (and scars) we’ve gained through managing multiple projects, the formal education we’ve taken and the certifications we have achieved.
No doubt, these are all contributors to our current competency, but […]

CBAP Certification Thoughts from the Field: To Certify or Not to Certify
By Andrea Brockmeier
Once again, I’ve been on the trail catching up with people who have earned their certification in either business analysis or project management to see what impact it has had on their professional development or practice.
Previously, I talked with a couple of […]