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Behind Every Great Product There’s a Project Manager
By Gren Gale
Just about every product you see on sale got there by a bunch of clever people designing and building it, but with a project manager behind the scenes making sure it was managed through to delivery.
Everything from the Pyramids to the Taj Mahal went through a […]

10 Terrific Traits of Exceptional Project Managers
By Harry Hall
Think about the project managers you’ve worked with through the years. Which project managers would you qualify as exceptional? Which ones were unusually good?
What traits caused these individuals to be outstanding? While the list below is not an exhaustive list, here are some of the traits and […]

6 Tips on Decision Making
By Pamela Grossman
Are You Able To Make A Decision? Being able to make a good decision quickly is essential to business success. If you’re like me and the millions of others who struggle with making the perfect decision, here are 6 tips that will help us all be more decisive.

Action is […]

Business Requirements: Documenting the Business Side of Projects
By Ben Snyder, CEO of Systemation
While many business projects are IT-related, more and more are being initiated and funded by lines of business, from marketing to finance and beyond. If you’ve ever dealt with new or conflicting requirements midway through a project—or even after the project was finished […]

Thoughts About Motivation
By Bill Scott, Global Knowledge Course Director and Instructor
I delivered a Project Management, Communications and Leadership class at our NYC training center last month. We discussed motivation and how project management was being influenced by Frederick Herzberg’s Hygiene Theory (which has little to do with hygiene). The Herzberg theory is more related to […]

What Leaders Can Learn from Grandma
By Roy Osing
Often the best mentors come from the most unlikely places. There are strong parallels between what Grandma does, the priorities she lives by, and the skills necessary to be a great sales leader.
Here are 20 plays from Grandma’s playbook; you can decide what they mean to you.
Grandma:

Is the […]

Crashing Your Schedule Is Not Your Only Choice when Facing Delays!
By Kiron D. Bondale
When our projects begin to experience schedule delays, a very common reaction from our customers may be to ask the team to work longer hours or to leverage their influence to provide additional resources to work on critical path tasks such that […]

Do You Know What Your Team Is Telling the World?
By Jim Anderson
Would it be fair to say that what your IT team is working on is top secret? In most cases the answer to this question would be probably be no. However, the companies that your company competes with would probably like to know what […]

The Secret for Forming an Incredible Team Is Learning How to Say: “You’re Fired.”
By Cristian Ángel
Unfortunately, something that no one talks about when they are forming a team for their project or their start-up is how to let someone go efficiently and correctly. The reason for this? Simple, it is an extremely difficult and uncomfortable […]

Solving Multi-PM Limitations with Resource Planning
By Patricia Goh
One would say that a project manager’s spirit animal is an octopus. With so many responsibilities, project managers are expected to be able to see things from the bigger picture, as well as being able to spot the nitty-gritty details. Alongside great communication skills and people skills, there’s […]