Completing the Project Plan – It’s Not Enough You, the diligent project manager, planned out the entire project. You hounded everyone involved to get the proper tasks laid out. You ran your Monte Carlo simulation to get the variances that were acceptable. You estimated costs, including overtime. Later you religiously held status meetings, took action [...]

Whether you are applying for a new position, a promotion, or just ran into a senior executive on the elevator, can you describe what you do in just three words? While this may seem to be totally unfair because, as you quickly point out, what you do encompasses so much more. After all, you manage [...]

What could be better than to start our conversations than with some project management axioms that have been around for years? This list below is liberally borrowed from Tony Collins’s IT Projects Blog. At the end of the list is a link to Tony’s original blog. My favorite is probably number eight. How many times [...]