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Indian Tailors and Project Management

Perhaps a few of you will frown upon this entry. It is not academic or pedagogical but I think project management should apply to all aspects of life. I recently returned from a trip to India my home country. And like many Indians and a lot of Silicon... Read more...

There has to be a better way

Early in my PM career, back in the 1980s, I was assigned the technical leadership of a software migration effort. I dutifully identified tasks, resources, and loaded those into the MS-DOS version of Microsoft Project (remember the days?) I then proceeded... Read more...

Physical conditioning for leadership under pressure

One of the most fundamental things that anyone can do for their leadership skills is basic: figure out how to feel great, day after day. This is the stuff of peak performance athletes, and with books like The Corporate Athlete and The Power of Full Engagement... Read more...

Leaders as Experimenter

Today it is critical that we talk about impact. I’ve introduced a number of ideas this week, and there are more coming this weekend. But let’s face it—reading about ideas never changed anything. The impact comes from taking an idea, testing it out,... Read more...

Levity in the face of pressure

Life has a funny way of working. Today I knew that I would be writing about a paradoxical way of leading under pressure. And sure enough, an opportunity arose this afternoon for me to apply this technique. Here’s what happened. I am in a monthly professional... Read more...

Scenario #3 - No thanks, I want to do a good job here

Patal Fray was Project Manager of a very big and important project for his firm.  He was very proud to have been given this assignment and assured his VP that he would bring it in successfully, on time, if not ahead of time.Offered another fascinating... Read more...

Best of PM Network 2007 - Growing Pains

This article was put together by Janet Liao in the February 2007 edition of PM Network, in the “Best of Congress Papers” feature. This is about work done by Laura Aziz, Ph.D., PMP and Bruce Woerner, PMP on PMO maturity. I really enjoyed... Read more...

Happy New Year!

As the guest blogger for the switch from 2007 to 2008, I wanted to do a series of posts looking back over 2007. This week you will see my “Best of PM Network”, reviewing the articles and features that struck me to be “kinda cool”.... Read more...

Christmas Day Greetings

Rosemary Hossenlopp, MBA PMP  My desire is that project managers will find clarity in discussing what is important for them and create a vision to help them, their families, communities and organizations meet the challenges of the New Year with wisdom,... Read more...

Managing to Lead

What’s the most important thing you do that makes you a good project manager?  The only contest I ever won was answering that question.  About ten years ago I entered the weekly contest in the nationally syndicated Working Wounded column in the San... Read more...

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