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The Best Project Controls Conferences in 2025 You Don’t Want to Miss

Are you considering attending a Project Controls conference in 2025? Whether you’re looking to sharpen your skills, discover the latest industry trends, or connect with like-minded professionals, conferences are one of the best ways to elevate your career. Every time I attend a conference, I’m reminded of how energizing and inspiring these experiences are. I

Earned Work: Measuring Project Performance

Earned Work Management is a lightweight, approach-agnostic project performance measurement system that supports Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban. This allows organizations employing different project approaches to measure project portfolio performance consistently. read more

Intentional Project Management

Meteorologists are better at predicting the weather than project managers are at delivering projects.  About a third of projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with the desired scope.  By contrast, a seven-day forecast is accurate about  read more

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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 next.  It is the classic case of “what got you here will

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