How do you successfully and honestly prompt your stakeholders to open about their risk perspectives and perceptions? There has been, in recent years, a lot of discussion about how valid …
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Why the structure of your Project Management Office (PMO) matters
Project Management Offices (PMO) are not new, but how we look at them has evolved like everything else in project management. In recent years, a push, mostly in Europe, towards …
Revisiting the removal of the Delphi technique
With the sixth edition of PMI’s body of knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) came some needed changes in terms of knowledge areas and processes as well as some surprises. One of the …
4 Steps to help organizations view risks as opportunities
A lot of people, including myself when I started working more in risk management, have a hard time with considering risk as a positive event. This comes from years of …
4 Essential tips for creating a project charter
Creating a project charter (following the PMI standard) is one of the first two things you should accomplish during the initiating phase of the project lifecycle. Identifying your stakeholders is …
Why every project manager must understand change management
Being effective in project management requires project managers to understand change management. If you are a Project Manager right now looking for the next course or discipline to pursue, I …
6 Simple steps to add projects to your project portfolio
The success of knowing how to add projects to a portfolio requires some steps. Is your project portfolio in a spreadsheet, disconnected from the business value it is intended to …
Scope Management: Challenges for SMEs
It’s not common for many SME’s to encounter scope management challenges. Scope management is arguably the single most important factor that determines project success. It is in scope management that …
Is body language part of your communication strategy?
Learn about body language in communication strategy. Albert Mehrabian, renowned engineer and psychologist documented and developed in his doctorate research (in the early 1960s) a theory that in order to …
Change management ITSM essentials
Wondering what ITSM change management or IT change management is? When it comes to IT service management, change management ITSM is a discipline aimed at standardizing processes and methods for …