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It's Not All Engineering It’s Not All Engineering

IT managers often begin their careers as engineers, problem solvers, and innovators.  If you are a technical person who aspires to a management role you must learn to embrace and work with budget and priority constraints.

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The Cost of Vendor Delays The Cost of Vendor Delays

Make sure that your change management process is clearly outlined at the beginning of a project and use it when there are unforced errors to get concessions from a vendor when the fault is clearly on their side.

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Keeping Your Vendor on Track Keeping Your Vendor on Track

Because of vendor firm expertise at blame management, clients need to be vigilant and proactive about managing systems integration efforts.

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Righteous Confusion Righteous Confusion

When a project manager is confused, sometimes the problem is the situation and not the PM.

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A Dozen Commitments for Your Project Sponsor A Dozen Commitments for Your Project Sponsor

A project’s sponsors are the senior managers who want the project completed and control the project’s budget and schedule. Effective sponsors support the project manager to get the job done.

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country hill Losing the Battle One Hill at a Time: Scope Creep in an Agile World

Some issues/hills are important and worth going all in – but most probably aren’t. Project managers must choose their battles wisely and develop scope discipline.

 

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Project Management Meeting If Things Aren’t Going Well, When Do You Want to Know?

Ask people to describe the number one job of a project manager and few will get it right. Payson Hall discusses the most important part of project manager's role.

 

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Disaster Your Project Might Be in Trouble If...

 As I start my fifth decade working on projects, primarily in the IT and software development space, I wanted to share some patterns I have observed that suggest a project is in trouble, Jeff Foxworthy style.

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