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Email Effectiveness

February 11, 2008

I’m old enough to remember life before “Smart” Phones, Cell Phones, PDAs, and Email.  Heck, I still remember the smell of the mimeograph machine when I was in elementary school.  Today I have a “Smart” phone; you know part mobile phone, part... Read more...

Help I’m in Meeting Hell!

February 7, 2008

Recently I looked at my calendar and caught myself saying “Sweeeet only 4 hours of meetings today”.  That’s when I realized “I’m in meeting hell”.   I had always suspected this, so I decided to look at my calendar to see what a typical... Read more...

The Plan is Nothing but Planning is Everything

February 6, 2008

A mentor of mine once attributed this quote to General George Patton.  I don’t know for sure if Patton said this first, but I do know that these are words for every Program/Project Manager to live by.  I’m not saying that running a program is equivalent... Read more...

How do you know you have Management Support?

February 5, 2008

Yesterday I said that “as the Program Manager it is your responsibility to make sure your team has what they need to succeed” (see Resource Poaching 101).  The reality is that this is the responsibility of every manager, not just the program manager. ... Read more...

Resource Poaching 101

February 4, 2008

Have you ever been the program manager on a job where you planned everything down to the smallest detail; you collected the requirements, got your experts together, reviewed what it would take to perform the development, and finally presented your plan... Read more...