You’ve climbed the project management ranks. You’ve got experience. You have training. You are certified. What next? This article takes a close look at life after certification.
A Critical Look At Project Initiation
Project initiation is often held to be a formal, disciplined and rational process of objectively assessing project benefits. Reality routinely demonstrates that nothing could be further from the truth. Project initiation is at its heart a political process, and while project managers are not always involved at this stage, they ignore what happens here at their peril. A critical look at what it really takes to get a project off the ground.
Selling the PMO: Are They Still Relevant?
PMOs have been around for a while, now. Are they still relevant? Where they ever? And what are the key roles that a PMO should play? Where do they most provide value? A view of PMOs, through the lens of a major research effort into project management value.
Best, Better, Not Bad: How Do We Find the Practices that Work?
One of the most overused terms in business is ‘best practice’. Just calling something ‘best’, doesn’t make it so. In fact, there is no one ‘best’ way to do anything — there are only better ways in specific situations and contexts. How to think about better practices, rather than best.
Stress & The Project Manager
Project management is a stressful gig. For many of us, that’s actually the reason that we took it on—although we would never describe it in those terms. This article explores the impact of stress on the project management role.
Designing Teams As If People Mattered
Projects are all about people. And yet, we often approach dealing with people as if they will all approach situations in a consistent, rational manner. Evidence amply demonstrates that people are far from rational at times, and ignoring this makes for some major management challenge. How to rethink thinking about people and teams.