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The Tightrope Walker in Your Organization
Most of us enjoy watching a tightrope walker in circuses trying to walk along a rope to reach to the other end without falling down. Skillfully, he uses a balancing…
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The 80/20 Project Manager
Professionals’ characters are made up of two components; the Technical Skills and the Human/Managerial Skills. These two categories of skills are competing against each other. If someone becomes more of…
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Stakeholders and the Cost of Change
Any individual or organization whose interests may be affected positively or negatively by the completion of a project is called a Stakeholder (SH). He could be a positive stakeholder such…
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Progressive Elaboration
A project is defined as a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. This definition explicitly states two of three characteristics of a project-Temporary (which means…
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Efficiency and Effectiveness in Project Management
Project Management is about boosting efficiency and effectiveness to close the project successfully. Here's how these terms are applied in Project Management.
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Lessons Learned and Project Management
Learning something useful from unpleasant, as well as pleasant, experience ranges from being an instinctive reaction that you can see in children to being a scientific approach that professionals use…
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Manage the “PMO Project”
I have read a story about a company that perceived the PMO function incorrectly and, consequently, deemed it a burden that would do nothing except blowing up its overhead cost…