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Currently I am tracking 103 blogs related to “Project Management”. Last month I found the following postings highly remarkable and interesting… Is it Time to Panic? “As you look at your own firm and your own situation, it is not a time to take foolish risks. Frankly, it’s never a time to do that, so [...]

“Planning and implementing organizational systems and practices to manage people so that the potential advantages of diversity are maximized while its potential disadvantages are minimized” (Cultural Diversity in Organization by Taylor H. Cox)

In my series “Proud Postings” I ask several other bloggers in the Project Management arena “What are the 3 postings you are most proud of?” This time three great postings from Paul Ritchie. He writes fabulous Project Management stuff on his blog Crossderry. Photography by Francois Schnell. First about Paul and Crossderry… “I lead global [...]

Why should people want to work on your project? You know about globalization, you know this makes employees competing with people from all over the world. Have you considered The Other Consequence? That you have to compete with other GLOBAL companies and Project Managers to get good people to staff your projects? If developers, testers [...]

If your are into software project management, you are into marketing. If you are planning to keep on working on software projects in the years to come, you better get darn good at it. It seems to be a dirty word among technical people: “marketing”. But it’s not about selling your soul to the devil. [...]

Different road condition require different suspension systems and settings to a car. If you are driving on roads in perfect mint condition, you need a different level of absorption than when you are following a trail through the jungle or the dessert. What conditions have the roads you drive your project on? Photography by Freeparking. [...]

In my series called “Future of Project Management Software” I am talking with Project Management software vendors about their view of the future. This time a conversation with Vadim Katcherovski from Easy Projects .NET. What, do you think, Project management Software will look like in 5-10 years? It’s hard to predict what kind of technologies [...]

Projects are about humans. Deal with that! And when dealing, it’s a project manager’s flexibility that comes in most handy since not only does mental agility ensure you keep yourself actively thinking, using those grey cells, it means you have the resilience to adapt to the only constant in life… change.