I recently joined Josh Nankivel at pmStudent e-Learning for a chat about Project Charters. We took a free-form approach and just chatted about charters and compared how they’re used in my small project environment, how Josh used them in former jobs that were in smaller project environments, and how they’re typically used in larger project [...] [...]
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July 13th, 2010 |
 Category: PM Learning, PM Tools |  One comment Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War – PowerPoint – NYTimes.com. (Click the link above to read the article.) The image above is of a powerpoint slide shown in a military briefing in the summer of 2009. It was meant to portray the complexity of the situation. “‘When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,’ [...] [...] April 29th, 2010 |
Category: Communication, PM Tools | One comment Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. Remember recently when I wrote a little about project charters? And I said I was going to say they’re not necessarily relevant in our smaller Cottage PM practices? And then I changed my mind just before I wrote that? Well, I just reconfirmed that experience. And I’m finding that I’m a new fan of Project Charters [...] [...] February 9th, 2010 | Tags: affiliate |
Category: PM Tools | 2 comments Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. OK, that title sounds more noble than I’ll be writing. See, I just caught a flu bug. Not very severe, and hopefully it won’t become severe. But it’s been flirting with me for 4 days now, and the fever finally began today, just when I thought I was getting better. But this post isn’t about [...] [...] January 27th, 2010 | Tags: affiliate |
Category: General, PM Tools, WBS | Leave a comment Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. I thought the little project was simple enough not to bother with a WBS. It was straightforward work that my team was accustomed to doing. This week I reconsidered that stance and built a WBS, and boy am I glad I did. The Project The project is to configure the CRM for a unique extended support offering. [...] [...] January 23rd, 2010 | Tags: affiliate |
Category: PM Tools, WBS | 5 comments Thank you for visiting. If this was helpful, please comment below and tweet this post! Affiliate Disclosure: I only link to helpful resources that I trust. Sometimes I receive a nominal commission. Click here for more info. Earlier this month, PMHut.com posted an article, “So What’s Your Project Charter.” It caught my eye. As I hope you’ve noticed, I’ve been considering the various tools and processes that PMs can use on projects and trying to determine which are most relevant to our environment, Cottage PM (see About Cottage PM on the left [...] [...] January 21st, 2010 | Tags: affiliate |
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