By Emily Bonnie, 15 August, 2017 Nobody works 100% of the time. We all take breaks, whether it’s time spent browsing the web, socializing, grabbing a snack, or even napping. 70% of employees are disengaged at work, which is currently costing American companies up to $550 billion annually in lost revenue. So how do you fight disengagement and keep your team motivated […]
By Alan Zucker Projects with involved stakeholders are far more likely to be successful. But many projects suffer from low engagement from executives, users, and key stakeholders. The PMI’s Pulse of the Profession survey found that projects with high executive support were 40% more likely to be successful than those with low engagement. However only 60% […]
By Sinikka Waugh The Monitoring and Controlling processes are those which help us keep the project on track to deliver value. There’s a monitoring and controlling process in each of the knowledge areas – except for one…more on that in a moment. A detailed analysis of the various processes in the Monitoring and Controlling Process group leads to these three […]
by Alan S. Koch, PMP It’s tempting to talk about DevOps like it’s a magical cookbook of utopian solutions. Of course, that’s not true — and when we’re dealing with the large enterprise world most of us live in, it’s especially not true. However, we are seeing exciting real-world results with DevOps-style practices and workflows, even in some of the […]
By Carl Pritchard, PMP, PMI-RMP Four Quick Tips (from a list of dozens…) It’s management. They want a briefing. It’s the customer. They want a briefing. It’s your team and you just met with management and the customer. They want a briefing. The root of the noun “brief” is Latin, breve scriptum — a short, written note. The emphasis on […]
By Randy Englund Ask, are you getting the support you need on your projects? The answer most likely is, probably NOT! Projects need upper manager/sponsor support to be successful. This point seems to surface everywhere we turn—project manager testimonials, Pulse of the Profession reports, Chaos reports, personal experiences, etc. Is it true, or is it anecdotal? Colleague Alfonso Bucero and […]