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Tag: project management

  • Want to Start a Business? Treat It Like a Project.

    “If you can dream it, you can do it.” Walt Disney Wouldn’t it be nice to be your own boss? To be able to make your own decisions, plan your day and your future without answering to someone else? It’s … Read the rest …

  • Project Management Meets Design Thinking

    The practice of Design Thinking has received accolades for transforming the way organizations solve problems. At the core, Design Thinking is about driving decision making from the human perspective, where business, organizational and technological solutions evolve from a human-centered exploration.… Read the rest …

  • Strategic Planning Is Just another Project

    Strategic planning. It’s that corporate activity that happens every four or five years, takes six months to complete and requires an annual renewal cycle to update the long term projections. Or, it may happen every six months at a company … Read the rest …

  • A Great Project is Like Beautiful Music

    We often fail to see parallels in life that can provide valuable insights and meaningful direction. Sometimes, stepping outside the box of our usual personal and professional lives can provide that Ah-Ha moment that helps set a new and successful … Read the rest …

  • Tackle Your Project’s Highest Risks First

    Sometimes our enthusiasm for that shiny, compelling future state causes us to rush headlong into the abyss. When you feel that desire, resist it with all your might! Instead, stand back and take stock of all the diverse project … Read the rest …

  • Projects Done Well, a Recap – Part 3

    In my last two posts, Projects Done Well, a Recap – Part 1 and Part 2, we reviewed some of the lessons learned from the 22 case studies presented in this blog over the last two years. We covered … Read the rest …

  • Projects Done Well, a Recap – Part 2

    In my last post, Projects Done Well, a Recap – Part 1, we started to look at the lessons learned from the case studies we’ve covered in this blog over the last little while. We covered three of the … Read the rest …

  • Projects Done Well, a Recap – Part 1

    We’ve looked at a number of case studies in this blog. They were real projects. Some were wildly successful. Some were miserable failures. What were the key factors that contributed to those successes and failures? In this post, Part 1, … Read the rest …

  • Ten Winning Project Practices

    Often, projects start out with a clean slate and a plan is built based on the experiences and biases of the project’s participants. Sometimes those participants forget to include important stuff and the project suffers. So, to make sure your … Read the rest …

  • Building Project Management Maturity

    How effective is your organization’s project management performance? Any idea what your maturity level is? Why should you care? Proponents of project management maturity models suggest the models can be used to identify the need for process improvements, set goals … Read the rest …