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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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Learning Contracted IT Projects: A Primer for Client Project Managers

If you’ve never managed an IT project for your organization that had significant work outsourced to a vendor, what’s learned on the job can be VERY painful and VERY expensive. Here are some things to watch out for.

 

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poison A Tale of Toxic Sponsorship

It is difficult to succeed without effective sponsorship—and almost impossible if your sponsor is toxic, as this true tale explains.

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Risk Project Management Schedule Risk Analysis

Building schedules for complex projects is challenging. While the results are never perfect, credible schedules are a useful communication and coordination device. Incredible schedules are a dangerous waste of time and energy that damage a project manager’s credibility and cost an enterprise a fortune.

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