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7 Tips on how to improve your project team culture with affinity groups
I just attended Colin Ellis’s keynote presentation, which provided wonderful advice on how to build the strongest project team. I took away several useful techniques, one of which was to positively change your team culture by having one team social event…
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How to unlock project portfolio team success with organization charts
A project portfolio requires contributions from several, sometimes hundreds, of people. Your perspective of your project portfolio team matters. Making one shift can unleash the potential of your team and their ability to contribute to the project portfolio’s success. Organization…
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How can you deliver a successful project with a team you didn’t plan for?
With traditional project management, the focus is on the plan and the work that needs to get done. There is some comfort in managing a plan. It is definable, real, and comes with a fixed timeframe. To get the work…
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Documentation: Protecting your team and project
The focal point of project management is getting stuff done. Getting projects completed under budget, on time, and within scope. That is the cake of project management. The icing is documentation. When it comes to closing out a project, questions…
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How to hire a rock star project manager who values team work
Any company that’s spent some time looking for an experienced project manager knows it that can be a stressful process that sometimes yields little or no results. In an article, I did for TechRepublic, called “Trouble Hiring a Project Manager?…
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14 Questions that can help identify project portfolio stakeholders
In my recent article, Eight tips for identifying your project portfolio stakeholders, I mentioned that I keep a list of questions I have found to be effective in helping me find project portfolio stakeholders. Here are 14 questions that can…
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How your organizational culture could be hindering project success
Is your organizational culture dragging down project success? Peter Drucker says that “Culture eats Strategy for breakfast,” and when it comes to project management, this can be too true. Project managers develop a project strategy, vision, and culture within their…
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How reframing RAM and RAID changes their use in managing projects
Looking to find out more about project RAM and RAID? Humans have this uncanny way of putting on a new coat of paint or moving a few pieces around, and “voilà,” we have a new thing. The same seems to…
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How to optimize the number of project portfolios for your organization?
Have you ever wondered how many project portfolios you should have? Do you wish you had cohesive insights into your organization’s ability to achieve its strategies? Here are three guidelines that will help you optimize the number of project portfolios…
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Friend or foe: Identifying the impact of different risks on your projects
When you are in a war, it is very dangerous that is very it is very important to be sure whether the approaching fighter aircraft or tank is your ally or enemy. This uncertainty led the defense industry to develop…
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