11/19/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: estimating projects, how long it should take, project management advice
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 the most boring non-tech industries in America…so the actual IT department was rather small. The […]
11/12/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: dealing with team conflict, project team conflict, resolving team conflict
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 them as much as you’ve had to? And I don’t mean in the “discuss and […]
10/24/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project customer, project ladder, project management, project manager
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 you can possibly get away with it. But usually, if you’re at the top of […]
10/16/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: please your project customer, project customer, project customer relationship management, project customer satisfaction
Remember, the project customer is not necessarily our friend. But we do want them to be satisfied with our delivery of the project team them. In Part 1 of this two part series, I began discussing the first five of my ten ways to please your project customer – and basically none of these cost […]
10/10/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: please your project customer, project customer, project customer relationship management, project customer satisfaction
Want to make your project customer happy? Want to guarantee they’ll be very satisfied clients throughout the engagement? Ok, you may need to ask someone else because I certainly don’t have the answer for that. If I did I’d be a millionaire several times over by now. But I can tell you that doing the […]
10/03/2013 by PM Hut Tags: common mistakes of project managers, mistakes made by project managers, mistakes of project managers
By Michelle Symonds PM Hut Some mistakes can be avoided if you plan properly and in advance. Inexperienced project managers can sometimes make mistakes, simply because they do not recognize them as mistakes due to a lack of experience. Here we will look at five mistakes that you really do not want to be guilty […]
10/01/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: advice for new project managers, project management tips, tips for new project managers
In Part 1 we started considering tips that new project managers might need or find useful as they migrate their way through the new responsibilities that have been thrust upon them. What I’d like to focus on when giving such tips are those things that may not be in a book or aren’t usually part […]
09/24/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: advice for new project managers, project management tips, tips for new project managers
Some people choose project management as a profession. Often moving to it from something else…another management position, a lifetime of application development work before realizing they have tired of that, or possibly they were a music major in college (don’t ask, let’s just say there are several individuals out there still wondering – along with […]
09/20/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project hand off, project time out, taking a time out, taking time off from a project
Taking a timeout. Taking a break on a busy project on your plate of work that you are performing. Sounds like a vacation, right? Well, I’m not exactly talking about a vacation. What I’m really talking about is taking some time off – temporarily – from a project that is suddenly sucking all of your […]
09/10/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: business analyst, good business analyst, good business analyst qualities
Good project managers value their project team members highly and build their egos along the way through the project engagement until the project is over. As many “good jobs”, “way to goes”, and “wows” you can give them the better. And the more you can say that in front of the project client, executive management, […]