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Scaling Your Project Management Career

Project managers ascend the career ladder based on accumulated experience-derived wisdom and managing progressively larger and more complicated efforts.  A typical trajectory involves moving from managing projects to programs, portfolios, and project management organizations.  Success at one level is not a guarantee of success at the

Are We Aligned?

Stakeholder alignment—or lack thereof—can be the difference between project success and failure. In today’s dynamic business environment, projects face multiple stakeholders and constituencies. Often, these groups have competing or divergent interests.   read more

Hybrid Project Management: Part 4, Picking the Practices

Hybrid projects are not constrained by a single methodology or well-defined framework.  By definition, they are a melding melding of practices.  A huge responsibility accompanies this unbounded freedom of choice.  Project managers must clearly describe how the project will be executed to be successful. read more

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Hybrid Project Management: Part 3, Picking the Approach

A project manager’s first major decision is selecting the approach and lifecycle.  Historically, this was a non-issue.  The default option was preordained based on the project type, organizational preferences, and inertia.   Construction and engineering projects were always predictive. For software projects, organizational factors outside the

Project Management Essentials

I authored my first project management article 10 years ago.  A mentor recommended I start writing to launch my transition from managing project organizations to teaching. Writing those early articles was challenging.  Reducing complex ideas into writing is a skill requiring practice and discipline. read more