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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Delivering the Right Project

Delivering on the project is great. On time delivery, on budget delivery. Fantastic. Delivering exactly what your client asked for? Pretty nice. Delivering exactly what your client needs? Even better. Some clients expect more than we are planning to deliver.…

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3 Tips for Project Kickoff that You Might Not Consider

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…

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Who Should Lead the Project? – Part 2

In Part 1 of this two part series on selecting the right project manager for the project, we discussed how it isn’t just about putting the best available project manager in the role. There are many aspects that need to…

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Who Should Lead the Project? – Part 1

Sometimes success or failure for the project is almost determined before the project even gets underway. What I’m talking about it is selecting the right leader for the right project. It’s not an exact formula…if it were then we could…

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Determining Project Success

Success and failure on projects can sometimes mean different things to different organizations. There is no exact measuring stick standard in the project management world. There really can’t be that many variations, but since the level of project oversight varies…

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Ensuring You Have Critical Resources on Time

Life would be great for project managers everywhere if we could just grab whatever resources we need whenever we want and always get the best of the best of the skill sets we need at any given time. Yes, and…

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Challenges for CEOs in Technology

CEOs of companies of all sizes face huge challenges today. The rate at which technology alone is changing is amazing and the CEO is expected to keep up if they are going to continue to stay cutting edge, keep their…

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Know How Long it Should Take

This concept works no matter which side of the fence you’re on – it’s just good sound advice. I was once being courted for a tech management position for an Iowa-based company that had to be stuck in one of…

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Dealing with Team Conflict – Fix or Replace?

You know the feeling… You go about handling all the issues you plan to handle and many that came up that you didn’t necessarily plan on. But the people on the project… Did you expect to have to deal with…

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Ignorance Does Not Equal Bliss

You know the saying…”Ignorance is bliss.” Really? How’s that working for you? You can claim you didn’t know and if you’re right – really telling the truth – and if you’re not in a position of importance or authority then…