Glen Alleman’s Series on Risk Management

January 13, 2010 Commentary

The Weekly PM Insights newsletter has published the third article in a series by Glen Alleman on risk management.  Use the links below if you want to read all three or just the latest one on risk management frameworks.
Article 1: Programmatic Risk Management – Part 1
Article 2: Programmatic Risk Management – Part 2
Article 3: Risk [...]

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Common barriers to project success – updated

December 30, 2009 Project Management

The Weekly PM Insights newsletter published a series of articles by me on Common Barriers to Successful Projects. These are project management issues that I have seen first-hand in real world projects that can negatively and sometimes seriously impact projects.
Article 1 was Common Barriers to Successful Projects #1-7.
Article 2 was Common Barriers to Successful Projects #8-14.
Article [...]

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Unleashing the Power of Project Management – updated

December 29, 2009 Commentary

We’ve now published all four articles in the “Unleashing the Power of Project Management” series by Dr. Aaron Shenhar in Weekly PM Insights. The series is based on his book, Reinventing Project Management.
Part 1 is The Project Management Opportunity.
Part 2 is Why Managing a Project by the Book is Not Enough.
Part 3 is What is [...]

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What makes a good project sponsor?

December 28, 2009 Commentary

In Issue 6 of Weekly PM Insights newsletter, we published the article “What makes a good project sponsor?” by Elizabeth Harrin. In the article, Harrin said:
Having a good, active project sponsor is one of the ways you can ward off project failure. So if you are in the enviable situation of being able to choose [...]

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Why managing a project by the book is not enough

December 22, 2009 Commentary

This issue of Weekly PM Insights has Part 2 of Dr. Aaron Shenhar’s series on “Unleashing the Power of Project Management” – based on his book, Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation.
Part 1 of the series was about The Project Management Opportunity.
Part 2 of the series is about Why Managing a [...]

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Unleashing the Power of Project Management

December 14, 2009 Commentary

In the latest issue of Weekly PM Insights, Dr. Aaron Shenhar introduces a four-part series of articles entitled “Unleashing the Power of Project Management”. In his executive summary, Dr. Shenhar explains the purpose of the articles:
Projects are the engines that drive innovation and change. Yet top management ignored them for a long time. Thus many [...]

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Thinking about project management

December 11, 2009 Commentary

In his article ”Ten New Rules for Project Managers” (see Issue 4 of Weekly PM Insights), Hal Macomber gives project managers a lot to think about if they really study his 10 points. These are not principles that are commonly taught or emphasized in project management today. But I think they hold a lot of value!
For example, [...]

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On empowerment and choosing

December 8, 2009 Commentary

I wrote a new article for the latest issue of the Weekly PM Insights newsletter, called “The Power of Choosing“. It touches on something that, in my opinion, project managers should consider - and I call it ”the power of choosing”. Thus the name of the article.
And, I think many experienced project managers probably will say “yes, of course, I [...]

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High-performance project teams

December 3, 2009 Commentary

In my article “Building Empowered and Committed Teams“, I wrote about several key characteristics of high performing teams:
High performance teams – teams that perform at very high levels – almost always have three critical characteristics (among others):

The team is empowered to accomplish the goals of the project;
The team is truly committed to accomplishing the goals [...]

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Managing project relationships

December 1, 2009 Commentary

People are very important to the success of projects. An obvious statement to experienced PMs, but very true. In my career, I started out being very task focused, but I learned how important and critical people are to all projects – since everything gets done by people. Duh!
In my article, “What Matters Most in Life [...]

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