On our projects, and in our programs and project portfolios, we often struggle with how to make changes. From my own personal experience, the most challenging part of change management has always been the area of making incremental changes versus making wholesale major changes. Let’s take a look.
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Incremental Changes Versus “Betting The Farm”
November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
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Project Management Essentials in Web 2.0
September 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Technology is advancing as fast as ever and we are constantly asking questions as to how to adapt to these technology changes. Isn’t it more important for us to ask how these new technologies can be used as tools to enhance project performance? Let’s explore this a little bit in regards to the Web 2.0 […]
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4 different styles
July 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Management styles
Almost everyone makes numerous decisions every day. It is these decisions that allow us to manage our lives, enabling us to do the things we want to do, while working with and around: other people, time and the everyday problems which always seem to occur.
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How to Write Effective Customer Satisfaction Surveys
June 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Why bother?
The life blood of any business is good customer service. Although you should try and attract new customers good customer service will help generate customer loyalty and encourage repeat business. With each satisfied customer your business is likely to win many more customers through recommendations and remember, if you are not taking care of […]
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Defining Goals For Your Life and Business
June 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Whether you want to set goals for your business or your personal life, defining clear, concise goals is very important. Without clear goals you can end up confused about what you want to achieve, and you may be putting yourself on the path to stagnation. Clear goals can give you tremendous momentum and intense purpose […]
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Game Changing Ideas
May 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments
I love basketball and I enjoy each March here on the United States when March Madness and NCAA basketball tournament arrives. In watching the games this past weekend, I could not help but be amazed at the number of game changing plays made by the players. In many of the games, it was a matter of how many game changing plays each team made. And the one that made more won. But the fact of the matter is that, these teams are full of game changers and made every game changing play they could. What can we learn from this for project management?
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A Golden Rule In Tough Times
February 4th, 2009 · No Comments
In these tough economic times, it will be quite a challenge for so many of us to make it through the year with a strong financial performance. I have been thinking about what some of the keys are to ensuring that 2009 is a solid year. The best conclusion I have is that the customer is king. Here are my thoughts.
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Check Your Assumptions
January 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments
In managing a project or program, we start with an objective, work in the details, get buying, put together a schedule, and implement. Of course, that is a very simplified version of what happens in project and program management but…
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Reassessing Projects When Stakeholders Change
December 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Projects, like anything else, are subject to change. One of these changes is changes in stakeholders. Many times a project will be very viable for a particular stakeholder, but priorities might change with a new stakeholder. This is also especially serious when the stakeholder is actually the sponsor of the project, the number one stakeholder. Let’s look at some key aspects of maintaining project control during these types of changes.
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Barack Obama’s Impact On Projects Going Forward
December 19th, 2008 · No Comments
With the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States and his coming inauguration in January, we are beginning to see what his priorities would be; this is an opportunity to think through what some of the impacts will be in the project management world.





