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(project) Management Humor: deciphering the job description

As a project manager you will likely see many of these phrases sprinkled throughout a PM job description. Now you have a tool to translate all the management speak and determine what the hiring company is really looking for:   TRANSLATING THE WANT-AD... Read more...

PM tips

Our Discussion Forum page is now called PM Tips since this better reflects its content and purpose.  This is a resource dedicated to PM tips and tricks, PMP exam advice, methodology, books, software, etc.  You can get to the PM Tips page by clicking the... Read more...

Critical chain giveaway winners

Don Cooke was picked on August 25th for the free Lean Project Management ebook giveaway and Walstan D’Souza was picked for the free CCPM+ software giveaway.  Congratulations to both listeners, and thanks to Larry Leach of Advanced Projects, Inc.... Read more...

PMI is Waking Up to the Importance of Soft Skills

I spent some time exploring the new Career Framework Initiative from PMI.  The framework is intended to provide project managers, program managers, and portfolio managers with a career path or progression from one job to another.  This is likely... Read more...

PMO Best Practices Checklist

Does your organization have a PMO? How is it going? If you are just starting a PMO review the checklist below and see if it makes sense for your group. Identify the participants and their roles Identify potential project team members as well as the major... Read more...

August 27, 2007 – Balancing Your Budget by Taking a Vacation

A word to the wise…do not go tent camping at Perris Lake, CA in August. You know you are in the wrong place when the locals say you are lucky the temperature dropped…to 102 degrees Fahrenheit (39 Celsius). As soon as the sun rises over the hills it... Read more...

08/27/07 Tip of the Week. SharePoint: Tip 10 - Using Portal Sites.

SharePoint 2007 provides a new kind of site template called a portal site template. The portal site template lets you define a hierarchy of sites such as a PMO site and project sites that can all be created at once. So, rather than creating project sites... Read more...

How many volunteers do you have working on your project?

While your initial reaction may be “none”, I would assert that your whole team are actually volunteers and we can benefit from recognizing this and treating them accordingly. All that paying people does is ensure that they turn up (hopefully) and... Read more...

The CMDB dream team

One of the issues dogging the CMDB hype cycle is the steep requirements for architecting and implementing such systems, even when based on vendor products. Expertise from a wide variety of domains is called for. What would a qualifed CMDB dream team look... Read more...

Identify Project Need and Begin Project Studies

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