News for the ‘Project Management’ Category
Managing People with Self-Induced ADHD (er… Chronic Multitaskers)
“… multitasking people not only perform each task less suitably, but lose time in the process.”
Edited: July 8th, 2010
Free Live Video Class July 23: Become a Project Management Minimalist
I’m teaching a free, live video class on eduFire: “Become a Project Management Minimalist!“ on Friday,July 23, 2010. To learn more and to register, click the graphic below. Hope to see you there!
Can’t attend the class? Then check out the free video series, Free Video Series: Become a Project Management Minimalist.
Edited: July 1st, 2010
How to Teach Yourself About Project Management…
… in under 3 hours (and for less than $10)!!
Are you a complete PM newbie? Are you in a hurry to get “just enough” project management (PM) knowledge and tools to get started managing your first project quickly? Then follow these 5 steps:
Edited: June 10th, 2010
Video Series: Become a Project Management Minimalist
This series of 8 free videos is designed to help you apply “just enough” project management (PM) to manage your projects effectively — without burdening your team (and you!) with a bunch of unnecessary PM administrivia. This series, along with the one-page reference, 10 Steps to Project Success, can be used as stand-alone basic PM training. It also serves as an in-depth introduction to the eBook, The Project Management Minimalist.
Edited: June 3rd, 2010
Advanced Project Management Training: Focus on Local Complexity, not PM Esoterica
Let’s face it: Formal training for experienced project managers is expensive! In addition to the cost of the class and instructor, pulling these seasoned PM veterans away from their jobs can place the projects they are managing at risk. What’s more, when you multiply the class hours by the hourly labor rate of that group of high-value “trainees,” you are likely to find that your investment is huge! So, when you decide to provide an Advanced PM class, you need to make sure you are getting your money’s worth! But how do you do that? This article provides some perspective.
Edited: May 17th, 2010
Rework will happen! So don’t be ambushed. Build it in.
In my classes, I like to tell my students that stakeholders are like new puppies in the backyard: They gotta mark their territory and leave their scent on everything they see! They need to make the project deliverables their own by adjusting them, changing them, reinterpreting them, and otherwise “branding” them with their own perspectives.
Edited: May 3rd, 2010
Become a Project Management Minimalist: Free Live Video Class April 23
I’m teaching a free, live video class on eduFire: “Become a Project Management Minimalist!“ on Friday, April 23, 2010. To learn more and to register, click the graphic below. Hope to see you there!
Edited: April 15th, 2010
Free Live Video Class March 5: Project Management for High-Performing Teams
Please join me for this free, online video class on Friday, March 5, 2010.
Edited: February 13th, 2010
My Incredible Shrinking PM Recommendations
Simplify, simplify, simplify! This post describes why I’ve gone through all of my PM “Body of Work” and boiled it down to the essential few items you need to design and manage your projects with “just enough” PM discipline… and no burdensome PM administrivia!
Edited: February 2nd, 2010
Beyond PM Certification: Achieving PM Performance Improvement
Summary
Stimulated by Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo’s incredible paper Project Management Credentials Compared – A Preliminary Analysis I share some thoughts and describe how I ultimately came to these conclusions:
- The PM Profession should work toward creating a single set of generic, universally-acceptable PM competencies, tools, and certifications.
- HR and training people, as well as those individuals seeking to upgrade their PM skills should (at least, for the present) ignore the certifications put forth by the PM Profession. They should focus instead on simply using the lists of competencies that underlie those certifications as inputs to their own PM performance improvement processes.
(Download the PDF version of this blog post instead of reading it here.)
Edited: January 4th, 2010
