Project Management Is EVERYWHERE You Are It's true. If you've ever done any of the following: ►Purchased a car ►Purchased a house ►Hosted a dinner or birthday party ►Made home improvements ►Created your own blog site ►Planned a vacation then you've been a project manager…
In general, myths are explanations we create to make sense of things we don’t fully understand. In project management, myths also exist to justify business decisions or actions we want to take that may be ill-advised. When we don’t want to appropriately invest money, time…
Getting Your Head Out of the Cloud: Business Analysis Considerations when Exploring Cloud Solutions When it comes to assessing the feasibility of cloud computing we want you to ‘get your head out of the clouds’ – at least long enough to analyze and determine whether…
What's Love Got to Do With It? Project Teams in Project Management What's a project manager without her team? In trouble. We hear it all the time, , "it takes a village", "it takes a team", "no one man stands alone", "behind every good man…
Vendor Management: A Long Term Relationship? What do a botched, contractor-led home remodeling project, a wedding catering scheduling disaster and the failed roll-out of the Healthcare.gov web site have in common? A huge headache, for sure. But they also represent poor vendor management at some…
Why Integrate Change Management into Project Management? How many times have you come to work and found that your computer system has changed, the process for doing Process X has changed...again, or even worse, the office lunch menu has changed for the worse. All without…
July 15, 2014 – How do I run my business efficiently and achieve my goals without compromising quality or service? That’s the question participants of the Chandler Chamber of Commerce’s Women In Business Education Salon asked on July 15. Led by Chrystal Richardson, managing partner…
Great Project Managers Know How to Integrate Training as Part of the Project There is no recall for poor training. A new state of the art system and flawless installation means nothing if users and those who will maintain the system are poorly trained. All…
Team Building: Is it worth the investment? Just mentioning the term 'team building' often evokes images of group wilderness excursions or those warm and fuzzy (but meaningless) round table ice-breaker exercises. The idea of team building is frequently met with cynicism or rolling of the…
In business, as in life, not everything will go according to our perfect plan. The popular TV series 'Scandal', inspired by a real-life crisis management professional, highlights the complexity and chaos of managing unthinkable, high profile political crises, in dramatic and sensationalized fashion. The main…