Archive | August, 2008
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Top Project Management Postings: August 2008

Currently I am tracking 97 blogs related to “Project Management”. Last month I found the following postings highly remarkable and interesting… This month Kimberly Wiefling, author of “Scrappy Project Management“, wrote a great series about leadership and project management. I highly recommend every single entry… BUT I just have to highlight two as they really [...]

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Create Resilience In Your Process By Following The Sun

Speed is one of the great enablers of resilience. If you can get feedback fast into your process, you can absorb changes like a vacuum cleaner. Fast feedback enables resilience. Photography by fdecomite. By making use of multiple timezones, you can extend the duration of a “working day”. More can be done in a day. [...]

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You Can't Create A Plan From Emails (But Wrike Can)

What do you do when everybody is using “the wrong tools”? Are you going to convince everyone to do it “your way”? Or are you going to tap into the existing information stream and improve the existing stream? As the words in “Paradise By The Dashboard Lights“: “What is it gonna be, boy?” Andrew Filev, [...]

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How To Promote Yourself As A Project Manager

Craig Brown and I are conversing on project management, and in particular professional development. The conversations is across both our blogs. Dear Craig, This time I have to explain why I am blogging and why I am yelling “Projects are about humans. Deal with that!” It is the only way I can answer your question [...]

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When You Are Looking For Project Management Software

Looking for the right project management software can be a pain. It is really important that you define upfront the goals you are trying to achieve with the introduction of the new software. If you have no budget available, you might want to check out my list of free Project Management software. Photography by TheBusyBrain. [...]

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Interview At Never The Same River Twice

A short while ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Maria Gajewski of Never The Same River Twice. You can read the entire interview on her blog. She asked me Photography by Ron Almog. How I came to the conclusion that “Projects Are About Humans, Now Deal With That!”? Why it is this [...]

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25 Rock Solid Tips to Supervise Offshore Development

Whether you are managing an on site project or an offshore one, getting the best out of your team takes effort, planning and tact. More so with offshore projects because of the ‘X’ factor; so much is unknown to you when you step out of your own circle. The offshore team can be based anywhere [...]

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Emerging Structures In Project Management – Speaking With Andrew Filev

Andrew Filev is the author of the Project Management 2.0 blog and CEO of Wrike. He has a very interesting view on Project Management, which he describes as Project Management 2.0. He also created an amazing PM Tool that supports his notion of Project Management 2.0: Wrike. I had a great interview with him, which [...]

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Project Tribes: The Goal And The Leader

The second half of this year will be all about “Tribes”. Master marketing blogger Seth Godin has written yet another book: “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us“. Although details are not known, “according to Godin, Tribes are groups of people aligned around an idea, connected to a leader and to each other. Tribes make [...]

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7 Things You Need To Know When Dealing With Offshore Projects

My column at TechTarget this month is called “Offshore outsourcing projects: Seven things every PM should know” 1. Stereotype! All Americans carry a gun. All Dutch people are cheapskates. All French waiters…well, don’t get me started! We humans love to stereotype. We simply need to. If there is one part in our brain that is [...]

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