01/26/2017 by Brad Egeland Tags: Customer, management, Onboarding, project kickoff, project oversight, Resources, Schedule
One key aspect of the responsibilities of the Project Manager (PM), of course, is his or her management of the project delivery team. This is where the real work happens, where the rubber meets the road and how the project moves productively forward. It is a lot of responsibility and takes some obvious skills and […]
12/31/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project kickoff, project lessons learned, tips for project kickoff
When we are assigned a new project there are plenty of things to do, right? First, that frantic wave comes over you as you consider the work that is already on your plate and you think about how you are going to manage to insert this new project assignment into the workload that you are […]
03/13/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project communication, project customer, project kickoff, project schedule, smart project management
In this series we’re going to begin a five-parter on some things we can do on our projects to manage smarter, not harder. There are things we do as project managers that are definitely ‘chores’. Things we wish we didn’t have to put so much effort into like today when I’m trying to get a […]
01/03/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: customer communication, project communication, project engagement, project kickoff
Communication is essential for a successful project. But not just communication – good and effective and accurate communication – because miscommunication happens all too often. Think about what happens in our homes every day. How many times has your wife or husband said they told you something or asked you to do something and you […]
09/11/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: project kickoff, project sponsor, project stakeholders, statement of work
So you’ve been handed a project, possibly your only project or possibly just one more to add to your already overloaded portfolio of active projects…now what do you do? If your organization is a thought leader in project management then maybe, just maybe, you’ve been involved during the very early customer engagement and sales meetings […]