Is a Project Manager role a thankless job?
I had an interesting discussion yesterday with some fellow project management practitioners. The basis of the discussion “Is a Project Manager role a thankless job?” We got the feeling that […]
I had an interesting discussion yesterday with some fellow project management practitioners. The basis of the discussion “Is a Project Manager role a thankless job?” We got the feeling that […]
Last year I wrote a blog post on “Impossible Projects” highlighting that “some projects carry such great risks that they should not start! But they do”. Once again, I was […]
As discussed in my earlier article, some programs and projects carry such great risks that they should not start! But they do. They start because there is a chance of […]
Yesterday, we discussed that some projects carry such great risks that they should not start! But they do. So you’ve been nominated as project manager to deliver this impossible project. […]
Some projects carry such great risks that they should not start! But they do. They start because there is a chance of a high Return on Investment (ROI) to the […]
I’ve just had a conversation with a colleague whom I worked with a few years ago. An exceptionally talented manager that, when I first got to know him, had been […]
Many organisations are today managing their business by projects. Project management is being applied to both traditional and non-traditional projects. In 2008, I worked for a global financial services firm […]
Yesterday I wrote about the issues of negativity and how it can side track, even derail, your project. It’s not all doom and gloom, there is good news. But first […]
There is many a good project manager who has been defeated by the project naysayer. Good ideas that have been dashed by the project pessimist who talks the idea into […]
As a result of the numerous financial scandals at major U.S. Fortune 100 companies in the first years of the new millennium, the U.S. introduced the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) […]