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As a project management professional, What Can NASCAR Teach Me About Reframing My Value Proposition?

February 14, 2022 by Mel Bost Leave a Comment

On Sunday, February 6, 2022, twenty-three (23) NASCAR Busch Stock racing cars squared off at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in a 150 lap race worth $2 million.  If you are attuned to NASCAR, you will recognize many incongruities in this scenario.   A 1/4 mile race track for a sport that has never sanctioned official racers on tracks at least 1/2 mile in length. In a market with … [Read more...] about As a project management professional, What Can NASCAR Teach Me About Reframing My Value Proposition?

Technology Is The Key. To Your Success as a Project Leader

February 8, 2022 by Mel Bost Leave a Comment

I was watching the Georgia Tech men’s basketball game today when the ball was deflected out of bounds and the official signaled that it was in the possession of the visiting team.  He was quick to go to the scorers’ table and check the video replay.  The replay showed clearly that the official’s original call was in error.  What did this … [Read more...] about Technology Is The Key. To Your Success as a Project Leader

Lessons Learned from the novel Covid-19 pandemic in the United States 2020

February 10, 2021 by Mel Bost Leave a Comment

Download Lessons Learned from the novel Covid-19 pandemic in the United States 2020. Download A Study Guide for Sustainability in Organizations For over thirty years, I have Studied Project Management Lessons Learned in large corporations and in international settings.  I was a member of a merger team in 2003 at ConocoPhillips that developed a lesson learned … [Read more...] about Lessons Learned from the novel Covid-19 pandemic in the United States 2020

What a Revelation!!! Behavior Determines Performance

April 20, 2020 by Mel Bost Leave a Comment

For over twenty years, I have worked on project lessons learned in organizations.  There are two different forms of Lessons Learned that project managers and PMO practitioners must understand to fully comprehend the concept of lessons learned. The surface connotation of lessons learned deals with projects as they turn “strategy” into “action” ”in an organization.  … [Read more...] about What a Revelation!!! Behavior Determines Performance

Why “Communication” is the Most Important Competency in Project Management

March 31, 2020 by Mel Bost Leave a Comment

As project managers, we have all studied the PMBOK—The Project Management Body of Knowledge.  This compilation is a summary of Best Practices and high-level definition of processes in planning and executing a project.  We often think that Developing Business Requirements, Vendor Management, and Risk Management are among those that required the most effort and … [Read more...] about Why “Communication” is the Most Important Competency in Project Management

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Mel Bost is a project management consultant specializing in project closeout and lessons learned, as well as process improvement, best practices, and benchmarking. For the past several years, he has been teaching “Project Management for Research” to postgraduate students at Arizona State University, as well as developing new approaches to the research process. Read More

Project Management Lessons Learned: A Continuous Process Improvement Framework

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