Learn By Doing
Sharon Bowman’s book Training From The Back Of The Room changed my life. For a number of years, I’ve been …
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7 Public Speaking Tips for Introverts
Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose – author of the business and time management books TimePeace: Making peace with time …
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Narrowing your career choices to your advantage
Recently I was approached by a professional struggling with what her next career position should be. Her background was in project management, but she could go back to school and get her MBA. She should start something on her own, or she could stay exactly where she is and focus on her PMP certification. She could take her transferable skills and move into operational management for the executive level. She could do this or that or the other. She was continually flip-flopping among all these options that she was stalled.
Colleges: Teach the “How”!
We’re at an inflection point. Agile practices transitioned over the last couple years from “emerging” to “predominant”. Companies are sampling …
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Could we make managing programmers a little easier?
Programming managers have typically had years of training in programming… And no training in management. I’ve been taking a fascinating …
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What exactly, do Project Managers Do?
Project Management is a very difficult line of work to describe in terms that every person can understand. The quickest answer I can usually come up with is “I get all of the work done on projects without doing any of the actual work”, which is the best description I have of what I do.
Energizing Agile
We’ve all heard about Agile, the good and the bad. While to some Agile is relatively new, I started being …
Whenever Possible Have Great People Resources and You Can Deliver the Impossible
Cisco was a client we wanted to work with. I’d gone with my project management course coordinator, Kimberly Wiefling, to …
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Recognizing PM’s Skill Development Actions
Recognition is always key. What’s the role of recognition in developing project managers?
Developing PMs – The Mid Game
Are you rewarding the good PM or the fire fighter? Who do you want to recognize?
Coaching and Mentoring PMs
What else do we need to do besides providing training and a supporting culture to project managers? We need coaching and mentoring! How do we go about it setting such an environment?