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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Rethinking and Replanning Your Project – Part 2

In Part 1 of this two part series on stopping to replan a troubled implementation, we began looking at the reasons to take such action as well as the major impacts to a project for doing so. Now let’s look…

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Rethinking and Replanning Your Project – Part 1

Unfortunately, things don’t always go as planned on the projects we run as project managers. That easily goes without saying because we’ve all had projects that experienced bumps in the road or redirections at some point during the engagement. If…

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Keeping Track of the Issues – Part 2

In Part 1 of this two part series on keeping track of your ongoing issues that arise on the projects you manage, we first had to acknowledge that every project experiences issues. It is the nature of project management and…

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Keeping Track of the Issues – Part 1

Issues abound on every project ever managed since the beginning of time. No project is executed so perfectly that no issues arise. And even if everything is running smoothly on all cylinders, there will still be issues that come up…

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Stay Connected with Your PM Peers

I will be the first to state that I very much like to work independently. And that is the beauty of project management. Much of what we do we do independently. I realize that all depends on the actual makeup…

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When the Customer Can’t Push “Go”

I am usually very energized by a new project. After all, there is a customer out there who is waiting to get started, eager to meet with me, and may have already left a couple of voice mails for me…

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Focusing on the Stakeholders

What skill must every project manager possess in order to be successful? Communication. Good, effective, efficient communication. Going into any engagement who the project manager will be communicating with is a question mark because the project itself can be more…

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Should We Say Yes to Every Project?

I am a consulting project manager rather than one working directly for an organization. So this article may be a bit more applicable to the consultant who has more options to turn down projects (although income is essential and nice).…

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Mentoring on the Fly

You’re an experienced project manager with many project success stories under your belt. Likewise, you’ve had enough failures…or brushes with failure…to be able to understand that side of the coin. You have the ability to talk about what works well…

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Empowering Your Project Team Toward Success

Control. It drives professionals to success or an early grave…depending on the individual and the obsession. But there is no question that some of the most successful project managers thrive on it. Let’s face it – there is a lot…