Brad Egeland

Noteworthy accomplishments: *20 year provider of successful technical project management leadership for clients across nearly every industry imaginable *Author of more than 4,000 expert professional project management and business strategy articles, eBooks and videos over the past decade *Articles/professional content receives over 40,000 page views monthly *Named #1 in the 100 Most Inspiring People in Project Management *Named a Top 10 Project Management Influencer to Follow in 2016 *The most read author of expert project management content on Project Times/BA Times for 2015 *Named most prolific provider of project management content over the past 5 years *Noted for successful project management and financial oversight for $50 million Dept. of Education financial contract/program *Chosen by the Dept of Defense as a subject matter expert (SME) to help select IWMS software provider for the largest IWMS implementation ever awarded

Joined: 09/11/2012
Articles: 179

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Key Ingredients for Project Management Success

This could be a long list…especially considering the never ending lists of known and unknown responsibilities for the project manager on every new project. It seems to be ever changing…yet we must be ready. But I’ll keep the list to…

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Know What You’re Getting Into Before the Project Starts

Sometimes the scariest part of the project is what you don’t know. We can be warned about all the potential risks, issues, technology roadblocks, end user concerns and customer concerns, but those unknowns that loom concerning the environments we are…

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Managing Project Risks and Issues

Issues and risks…wouldn’t it be wonderful if we can manage a project without either of these creeping up on us? But the reality is they can…and they do. Both of them, in fact, show up on every project we manage,…

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Slotting Your Time on the Project

We often make tasks – or series of tasks – more monumental than they need to be. We have a tendency to get stuck working on the same thing over and over again in pieces broken out here and there…

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Who is the Real Project Customer?

Your customer is critical. And from most project managers’ perspectives, that is the person sitting across from him at the table or the one on the other end of the phone on the status call. That’s right… that is the…

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When You Lack the Project Resources

This has surely happened to every experienced project manager in the world. The project is going along fine – maybe deep into a critical task or phase – and suddenly you either lose a key resource or can’t onboard the…

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10 Signs that Leadership is Missing – Part 2

In Part 2 of this two part series on signs leadership may be missing from a project, we’ll look at five more indicators – in no particular order of importance. The idea is if you recognize any of these…either run…

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10 Signs that Leadership is Missing – Part 1

Leadership, not just project management, is critical on all projects. Whether it comes just from the project manager – where it must be prevalent – or from others on the project team … leadership is very important. And by leadership,…

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Managing the Dreaded Project Conflicts

Conflict. A word we usually all try to avoid. Our regular project management work keeps us busy enough without trying to manage the various kinds of conflict that can arise on our projects. Conflicts between team members. Conflicts between our…

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Project Management: Strategic Pluses

Most of us know – especially those of us in the project management world – that a solid PM practice that is truly running smoothly in an organization can bring great benefits to the company, the employees and, of course,…