Why You Should Pay Attention to the Most Subtle Human Factors

February 14, 2020
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Even Executives Need to Pay Attention to the Human Factors

We spent months in proposal development in addition to our normal project work – always in addition to our normal project work. We wrote thousands of pages of bid response, and then commandeered a FedEx® truck to deliver the exact number of copies of our proposal to the procuring agency at the last possible… Read More

Why You Should Include People Aspects of Project Management in the Project Charter

February 12, 2020
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The Project Charter Sets the Project Framework

Almost any new project begins with the Project Charter as its first formal deliverable. The Charter focuses on end results, project boundaries, roles and responsibilities, and processes for execution. Sometimes it includes a technology… Read More

How to Get a Project Started on the Right Foot

February 10, 2020
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Starting on the Wrong Foot with the Client’s Project Manager

Have you ever started a project with solid processes in place, and with focused attention on delivering your proposed technical solution perfectly – yet within a few weeks you were experiencing major delivery… Read More

Success is What Happens When We Take Care of Our People

February 7, 2020
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End-users are part of the project team. Celebrate them.

One of my favorite projects was a large, fixed-price, fixed-end date project for an organization that had never in its history delivered a systems project on time. I was bid as the Project Manager. It was early in my career as a Project Manager, and believe me I was… Read More

IT Project Managers: Why You Should Let Go of Control

February 5, 2020
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Project Mangers do not want to give up control

Project Managers don’t want to give up control. They want to manage as they have always managed, using “proven” methods and processes. And yet as an industry, our results are mediocre at best, dismal if being honest. It’s time to learn how to put people first to improve the likelihood of successful project… Read More

Why So Many IT Projects Fail: A ‘People First’ Companion to PMBOK

February 3, 2020
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Why does IT have such a mediocre (read “dismal”) project delivery track record, especially given that we’re so skilled at technology and process? How can we improve our success rates? Are we focusing on the people aspects of our project delivery? Are we putting our people… Read More

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