03/18/2015 by Brad Egeland Tags: project communication, project engagement, project management, project manager, weak link
Communication is one of the most critical aspects of managing a project. It must be efficient, effective, and must be managed by an organized leader on a project engagement – and hopefully the project manager is up for filling that communication facilitator role. However, in the project management world – the communication process is only […]
02/10/2015 by Brad Egeland Tags: project client, project engagement, project manager, project requirements, project success
Seriously. You can’t make a perfect project. You can’t just “will” a project to success. Too many variables. But you can do all that you can do to make a project engagement successful. And the two biggest ingredients to that success that the project manager can have a great deal of control over is practicing […]
01/15/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project engagement, project expectations, project management, project solution
The customers on the projects we run come to us or our organization with project needs in hand and money to spend. They’re looking for a solution – yes – but they are also looking for effective leaders to run those projects that lead to those solutions. Some see the value in the project manager […]
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 […]
10/11/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: project engagement, project roadblocks, project stoppage, work stoppage
Projects are meant to be completed. No one likes to leave unfinished business, right? But there are those situations that come up from time to time where the project can’t be completed or is put on hold. The reasons can be almost endless. The most common include things like customer funding issues, a change in […]
09/27/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: project engagement, project management, project management best practices, project success
As project managers and professionals we’ve experienced many successes as well as failures on the projects we’ve lead and participated on. When you work on or lead a high profile, successful project, it’s human nature to want to rest on our laurels sometimes. Finish a great project, win against all odds, drag a doomed solution […]