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As a Project Manager, Do You Practice Change Management, or Just Manage Change?

Guest post by Ronn Faigen

Ronn Faigen is the General Manager for APMG-US, part of APMG International, a global accreditation and qualifications organization. In this capacity, Ronn is responsible for increasing the awareness and adoption of internationally recognized best practices, among them PRINCE2®, Managing Successful Programs (MSP™) Portfolio, Program and Project Offices (P3O®) […]

Best Practices for Setting Priorities as a Team

There are times when it makes better sense to enable a team (or department, business unit, etc.) to set their priorities rather than to have the priorities set and pushed down by top leadership. It helps to create ownership and commitment to the direction the company is heading. In such situations, take these best practice […]

How Effective is Your Team?

Surveying members to gauge effectiveness in working together

You can usually tell if your team is not working together as effectively as they could be. You see the signs. Team members are….

not committed to supporting each other, work is being thrown “over the wall” with no thought of quality or timeliness not attending meetings […]

Best Practices for Creating the Project Charter

Developing a document that will help you manage your project!

While we all know that in theory the project charter is handed to the project manager from the project sponsor, in reality this never happens! The project manager develops the project charter based on information from the sponsor and other key stakeholders. Too often project […]

Soliciting Feedback from Your Key Stakeholders

Getting information you need to ensure future project success

Soliciting feedback from our key stakeholders on our initiative is not always easy for a number of reasons. In some organizations, it just isn’t standard practice as people move rapidly from project to project. In other organizations, projects run with so much difficulty and anxiety that […]