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 […]
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Mission Impossible 2
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 […]
Projects are risky! Expect some failures.
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 […]
Impossible Projects
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. […]
Projects are Risky! New Endeavours, Not Business as Usual
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 […]
Project Communication Insight
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 […]
Managing Business Value by Projects
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 […]
Negativity Can Bring Your Project Down – Fix It
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 […]
Negativity Can Bring Your Project Down
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 […]
Regulatory Compliance and COBIT
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) […]
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