The dangers of playing the game of politics in project management are great, but are the rewards worth it? There are some very good reasons to play the political game on a project (as well as a few r...
Anytime you get a large number of people working on something, there are going to be differences in style and capability shown in that work. When that work is software development, then some of those...
Mention the word "politics" to someone and ask them what they think, and youll get a litany of negative characteristics in response. But the term is actually value neutral. Politics is, funda...
All is fair in love, war and projects. Projects, you say? Why not? Projects are similar to love and war in one significant way: they all involve people who are motivated to compete to improve their s...
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The project management office has a different role in the operational team than in project teams. In general, there are two major reasons for having a PMO as part of the operational team--and its up ...
Politics are never fun on a project and a PMs life is always easier when they dont have to deal with them, but thats just not realistic. By recognizing that fact and counteracting "bad" polit...
To really understand whether or not you have the right players or even the right teams in place to complete the projects youre responsible for on time and on budget, there is a critical shift in para...
Will Chief Information Officers live long and prosper or go the way of the dodo? A look at the history of executive-level evolution and the current state of IT strategy may provide the answer.
If youve ever been involved in a highly visible project in which major stakeholders are jockeying to position themselves to impose their own agenda, then you would have experienced project partisan p...
Weve already looked at the opportunities agile methods offer for proactive risk management and examined the benefits of engaging the whole team in risk management through collaborative games. As our ...
What does the future of PM have in store? Three trends have the potential of being very powerful for project management and the organizations that continue to pursue the discipline.
Project management is all about people and relationships--and there will be times when not everyone gets along. Projects have the potential to be political hotbeds as stakeholders have their own pers...
Teams are more than the sum of the parts. Cross-functional collaboration supports creativity, innovation and speed. Who wouldnt want that? But managing cross-functional collaborative teams differs fr...
Companies always work toward having the competitive edge, and key issues often focus on the perceptions of their customer service. Thats all the more reason to be on top of the innovations and benefi...
While many consider politics to bring out the worst in people and try to shy away from or ignore internal and external politics, they are a reality in the corporate world. Ideally, politics can be a ...
As long as people are involved in the project process, project managers will have to deal with politics. As intuitively obvious as that statement might be, it must remain an enigma to many project ma...
How do these two roles stack up against one another? Can a project manager adapt to being a ScrumMaster? Given the opportunity and environment, people can be successful in a number of different roles...
On a mission to debunk more agile myths, this writer arrived at the Eternal Triangle...where issues surrounding people, processes and tools awaited to challenge his thinking. Do you agree or disagree...
Code inspections are an implicit, often unspoken best practice among agile project management teams. This silence has caused some people to question the quality control of the agile PM paradigm. Surp...
Issues and action items are often lumped together, but there are differences--and they require different strategies to make sure they dont derail your project. Do you have a plan in place?
"Project manager" does not mean "stakeholder gatekeeper". The PM always seems to control that relationship, but there is a better way: When the relationship between team members and s...
Want to engage all of your stakeholders quickly and communicate with them throughout the project? Stop being so selfish! Its not just about you. The decisions one PM made that supported communication...
If you have not been a project manager on a contingent worker status, you re missing a great deal of experience. If you are ready to jump into the consultant PM life, what should you be aware of so t...
Few project managers discuss stakeholders without in some way referencing the need to employ "stakeholder management". Not only have we invented a dehumanizing four-syllable word for "per...
Groups give us a sense of belonging in the world, and in order to increase self-image we as individuals aim to enhance the status of the group to which we belong. We want our team members to identify...
An important aspect to a successful project is client perception of satisfactory customer service provided by the project team--and developing project team customer service skills begins with the pro...
Stakeholder management is a key part of any project--yet stakeholders are not always the easiest people to manage. The solution would appear to be simple--manage the performance of our stakeholders s...
It doesnt seem that the succession planning process should be so difficult. Yet success in this area seems to elude most companies. Perhaps the seeds for deficiency are sewn in the process itself. So...
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