Articles, Tools, & Podcasts
Managing Any Kind of Project…
PM STRATEGIES & TOOLS
- Project Management Minimalism
(“First do no harm!”)- 10 Steps to Project Success (from The Project Management Minimalist) (free 1-page PDF download)
- The Project Management Minimalist: Just Enough PM to Rock Your Projects! [87-page eBook]
- Free Video Series: Become a Project Management Minimalist
- Become a Project Management Minimalist (free 37-minute podcast w/team Challenges)
- PM Minimalist Selected by Laureate Education for use in Walden University
- Ten Guaranteed Ways to Screw Up Any Project
- 14 Key Principles for Project Success
- Summary of (20) Key Project Manager Actions and Results
- Project Life Cycles versus Key PM Processes
- Rework will happen! So don’t be ambushed. Build it in.
- Keeping Things Moving: A “To Do” List and Items to Help You Execute, Control, and Close Out Your Project
- Project “Post-Mortem” Review Questions
- What’s Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and Why Should Project Managers Care About It?
- Too Many Projects? Prioritize Them!
- The Project Manager’s Partner, 2nd Edition
- In-depth Book Review by Eileen Dormuth: The Project Manager’s Partner
BUILDING PM SKILLS
This may be the only PM Basics training your people need! And it's FREE!!
- The Accidental Project Manager
- How to Teach Yourself About Project Management… in under 3 hours (and for less than $10)!!
- How to Teach Yourself About Project Management…Without Spending Any Money on Training or Consultants!
- Beyond PM Certification: Achieving PM Performance Improvement
- The New Project Manager’s Support Pyramid: A Framework for PM Training & Support
- My Incredible Shrinking PM Recommendations
- Advanced Project Management Training: Focus on Local Complexity, not PM Esoterica
- About Michael Greer’s Customized, On Site PM Workshops (“First do no harm!”)
Managing Instructional Development Projects…
- Greer’s ID Project Management Model
- Critical Attributes of ID Project Success
- Training Cost Benefit Analysis: An Admittedly Superficial Overview
- Estimating Instructional Development Time
- How to Manage Follow-Up Evaluation — (This is Chapter 10 from Greer’s book, ID Project Management, © copyright 1992, Michael Greer & Educational Technology Publications… all rights reserved. Contact Michael Greer for permission to distribute or reproduce.)
- PM Minimalist Selected by Laureate Education for use in Walden University’s Masters in Instructional Design and Technology.
- Overview of Greer’s 1992 book ID Project Management: Tools & Techniques for Instructional Designers & Developers
- Instructional Design Versus Message Design – Some slides I used to explain the difference. [Provide your own narration!
] - Typical HPT [Human Performance Technology] Project Life Cycles
- “Beyond Sales Training: Designing a Learning Organization” – from In Action: Designing Training Programs, American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), 1996 – describes exactly how we planned and managed a comprehensive performance analysis to create job models, career paths, curriculum architecture, and corresponding training priorities.
PM Inspiration, Motivation, & Team Building…
Below is a list of my Inspired Project Teams posts & podcasts published so far. (Also available on iTunes.) Each includes:
- Quotations that might inspire project managers or project team members. (Sometimes war stories & examples are included.)
- Reflections to think about… as project manager or project leader.
- Team Challenges – Questions and suggestions to challenge your teams to stretch and grow.
- Project Manager Challenges – Specific actions for project managers or team leaders.
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- Become a Project Management Minimalist
- 10 Specific Actions That Can Help You Become Happier
- Consciously Choose Your Attitude
- Tend Your Gardens of Thought
- Just Say No
- Be the Change You Want to See
- Take the Risk
- Practice Mindfulness
- Accept What Is
- Just Do It!
- Trust Your Judgment
- Act As If
- Do What You Fear & Grow Stronger
- Encourage Right Brain Thinking
- Shift from Drama to Empowerment
- Spend More Time in Quadrant 2
- Learn to Be Optimistic… Learn to Succeed
- Change Your Mind
- Celebrate the Chaos Within
- Let Go of Perfectionism
- Embrace the Work Itself
- Train Yourself to be Happier
- Listen, Understand, Collaborate
- Get Excited… and Let It Show!
- Take Charge… Stop Playing the Victim
- Make Time for Recreation
- Get High on Kindness
- Think Small
- Today… Be Here, Now
- Find a Project Mantra
- Project Management Minimalism
