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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 Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

We recently published our list of 25 must-read books for product managers and product marketers alike, but felt like there was something missing. Despite going through a lot of books as part of our commitment to self-learning, we realized that what we lacked was actual feedback from readers who were product managers and product marketers themselves. So we reached out Continue Reading

By Alan Zucker       Time is the dominant constraint on all projects. There is a constant race against the clock. Many projects have fixed completion dates determined by external forces. Projects that fall behind schedule, struggle to catch up. I have never met a project manager who said there was too much time. “Time is also a unique Continue Reading