No doubt if you are a sports fan of any type, you heard that this past weekend that the American and European teams competed for the Ryder Cup Golf Championship at the Medinah Country Club in Chicago. This three-day event alternates each year between a European golf site and a United States golf site. The teams are chosen by a captain from the best PGA golfers from the United … [Read more...] about What Can Project Managers Learn from the 2012 Ryder Cup Golf Championship?
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The Tremendous Impact of Role Models on Project Management Leadership
When I was a teenager, I walked into our family room one evening and found my father on his hands and knees in the middle of the floor. Around him were four flip charts and he was drawing with crayon freehand on each of the four flip charts. "What are you doing?" I exclaimed. "You remember last week when I was in Detroit for four days on that Service Training … [Read more...] about The Tremendous Impact of Role Models on Project Management Leadership
A Challenge to all Project Managers
So you have been a project manager for quite some time now and you think you have done a good job. Sure, you've made some mistakes and some bad decisions along the way that you wish you could have reversed at the time and sown better judgment in handling. But, overall you think you have handled the basics of being a real "PROJECT MANAGER." You have selected some good team … [Read more...] about A Challenge to all Project Managers
What New Skills and Capabilities Must a Project Organization Develop in its Project Managers and Facilitators to Ensure a Robust Project Lessons Learned Process?
My recent PMO blog posts have consistently addressed some of the prerequisites for an "actionable" Project Closeout and Lessons Learned Process for the PMO or project organization. In general, these have been activities or competencies or capabilities that the organization needs to nurture in order to really make Project Lessons Learned an active contributor to the overall … [Read more...] about What New Skills and Capabilities Must a Project Organization Develop in its Project Managers and Facilitators to Ensure a Robust Project Lessons Learned Process?
How Does an Active Project Risk Management Plan Facilitate an “Actionable” Project Lessons Learned Framework?
In the course of my work developing an "actionable" framework for project lessons learned, I have learned that one of the great facilitating actions contributing to a robust and "actionable" Project Lessons Learned Framework is an active Project Risk Management Plan. Many project organizations already incorporate Risk Management as a capability in their planning and … [Read more...] about How Does an Active Project Risk Management Plan Facilitate an “Actionable” Project Lessons Learned Framework?
