Use how often customers ask for you to manage their projects to measure your success. The Community Post “How do You Measure Your Success as a Project Manager?” on the PMI’s site looks at the definitions of successful project management. It is a digest of a conversation in the PMI Career Central group on LinkedIn andContinue reading “Are You In Demand?”
Category Archives: Project Management in the Blogosphere
Stay Calm and Improve Your Reputation
A big part of successful project management is the ability to stay to calm in the storm of activities and issues. The relationship with the customer is one of the biggest sources of stress and conflict for a project manager. Dan the Project Manager Man tells the story of his adventure with an upset customer. HeContinue reading “Stay Calm and Improve Your Reputation”
Are You Managing Checklists or Projects?
The post Energy and focus by Craig Brown on the Better Projects site asks, what if we spent more energy on outcomes, benefits and learning instead of focusing on controlling plans, business cases, schedules and budgets. This, intended or not, is a call to end CYA project management and start managing projects to deliver outcomesContinue reading “Are You Managing Checklists or Projects?”
Six Practices For Project Success
CIO.com outlines six practices from Project Assurance. Identify the real issues — Understand the context and analyze the issues objectively. Set realistic time frames — Monitor dates in the schedule, adjust dates when the schedule changes and remember to check for effects on the dates of related deliverables. Align the work streams — Watch the dependenciesContinue reading “Six Practices For Project Success”
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