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Agile Interview with Stephen Forte
Our interview with Stephen Forte is the first of our brand new series of Agile Interviews with agile influencers.For a long time we have been searching for a format that would allow us to provide our...
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5 Things the CEO Can Learn from the Project Manager
The CEO is the leader of the organization. They need to be in charge of the company in terms of where it’s headed, how it’s going to succeed over the next 12 months, five years, ten years and beyond....
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Agile Interview with Joel Semeniuk
This is our second interview of our brand new series of Agile Interviews with agile influencers.For a long time we have been searching for a format that would allow us to provide our TeamPulse blog...
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The Perfect Project Status Report
The project status report is the project manager’s billboard to the world as far as how things are going on his project. It starts clean at the beginning of the project, full of optimism predicting the...
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Agile Interview with Elizabeth Harrin
This is our third interview of our brand new series of Agile Interviews with agile influencers. Our previous interviews were with Joel Semeniuk and Stephen Forte. For a long time we have been searching...
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Potential Project Killers – Start too Fast
You are cruising along on your current project engagement and life seems great. After all, you and your team thought of everything, right? And what the customer came to you with at the beginning of the...
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3 Ways to Focus under Pressure
Ever feel pressure as a project manager? Some of the time? All of the time? I hope you’re not actually feeling stressed and under pressure 100% of the time – I for one actually do find project...
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Potential Project Killers – Part 2 – the Vague Budget
In Part 1 of this five part series on potential project killers, I covered the concept of starting the project too fast. Starting the real work on the project before you’re ready can truly be a project...
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Why It’s Critical to Use Reporting for Your Projects
Projects are complicated beasts – there is no question about that. Tracking everything from issues, to outstanding tasks, to change orders, to risks, to financials, and everything in between…it’s...
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Potential Project Killers Part 3. The Indecisive Customer
So far in this five part series on potential project killers, we've covered two topics:- Starting too fast – getting the project going before it’s really ready to start and before it had been well...
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The Changing Resource Roster. Potential Project Killers Part 4
In this five part series we’ve been examining what I consider to be key project issues that can turn into real project killers if not properly managed or avoided. In the first three parts so far we’ve...
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The Flexible Schedule. Potential Project Killers. Part 5
As we close out this five part series on some of my favorite project killers, let’s consider what we’ve covered so far in Parts 1 through 4:• Part 1 - starting too fast– don’t start before everyone is...
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It’s the Customer’s Project.. But
“I’m the customer…do what I say.” “That’s my money – I want you to do this!” “The customer is always right!” Have you heard this before? Is the customer always right? My answer is no. In fact, you may...
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How to Enable Agile Adoption in Your Organization
For years I’ve been lecturing and writing about the process of adopting Agile. Specifically, I’ve been promoting a model that Stephen Forte and I call the “Agile Buffet” where change, in this case the...
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It Only Takes One Change Order
If you're like me you hate to give the project customer bad news. Especially if things seem to be going well on the project. If they aren't, then what's one more bit of bad news? You can probably just...
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Agile Interview with Hala Saleh
This is our forth interview of our brand new series of Agile Interviews with agile influencers. Our previous interviews were with Joel Semeniuk, Stephen Forte, and Elizabeth HarrinIf you have any...
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3 Keys to Increasing Project Profits
Through experience I’ve found that project success is usually determined by one or more of three factors – on time delivery, on budget delivery, and overall customer satisfaction (which is often based...
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We are now on to Part 2 of this three part series on ways to increase or protect the profitability of the projects we manage. In Part 1 we examined the obvious area of budget management and ways we can...
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[Free Whitepaper] How Proper Tooling Can Help Scale Agile Faster?
While many organizations start their Agile adoption initiatives with team rooms, whiteboards and sticky notes, organizations that are looking to mature and scale their Agile practices have found that...
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Improve Agile Project Planning by Involving the Whole Team
Unlike traditionally run projects which are planned by an “expert,” Agile planning should be done with the entire team participating. Agile encourages group participation in all forms of planning and...
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