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Team Members are Unprepared for the Project Work

How can you get them “up to speed” quickly?

The problem

The project you have been assigned has a short deadline. Given a recent increase in customer complaints over one of the company’s software products, you have been asked to take on a project to correct the problem with the product and release an updated […]

5 Ways to Engage the Project Sponsor

Just because someone sponsored the project, doesn’t mean they are engaged! You want to ensure that your sponsor is engaged in the project. As the project manager, it is your responsibility to engage your project sponsor. An engaged sponsor is supportive of the project throughout the organization and of the team’s efforts on the project. […]

Plan for Success as a Project Manager

Starting up in a new company as a project manager? Just starting off as a project manager on your first large initiative? Taking over a failed project? You have some challenges ahead! Too often project managers new to the role, the project or the company forget to pause and consider what’s ahead and plan effectively […]

Better Management of IT Projects

Or, how to avoid being a statistic….

I read a recent Harvard Business Review “The Daily Stat,” that noted that a study by McKinsey & Company that was reported on in the September 2011 issues of Harvard Business Review noted that 15% of IT change projects are huge money sinks with cost overruns averaging 200% […]

Are Your Asking Your Team Members to Build the Project Schedule

Or are you making decisions for them?

When I saw the Dilbert strip below I got quite the chuckle out of it and it brought back some (not so fond) memories of my early years in project management.

Early on in my career (many moons ago!) when I was first getting involved in […]