If you ‘do’ social media, what do you do less of?
At the APM conference last year someone asked our panel what project managers should be doing less of, if they were going to spend time doing social media related tasks like updating wikis or...
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Coming Up: My First Public Speaking Gig!
People have been asking why I haven’t been posting much lately. Well, it’s because I’ve been heads-down working very hard on my first real public speaking gig for Samad Aidane’s PM Telesummit. I’m very...
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Project Manager Empathy … Workshop?
So, presenting at the PM Telesummit was a fabulous experience, and I’ve made a lot of really great connections as a result. One thing that has happened, is that I’ve been asked to develop a workshop on...
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The Lazy Project Manager
Every once in awhile you stumble across someone who’s done so fabulously well for themselves you want to reach out and heap your congratulations on them, hoping some of their awesomeness will rub off...
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Dude. I need some of that awesome.
(A guest post by Peter Taylor, The Lazy Project Manager) So, the other day I shouted out Peter Taylor’s fabulous success with his book (that you need to immediately go out and buy), and begged him for...
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Zombie Project Management
I just found out that one of my favourite bloggers, Derek Huether, is releasing his book, Zombie Project Management. I’m very excited. I’ve been following Derek for over a year now. He started writing...
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Project Management is Exciting!
Seeing as I’m currently looking for work and have some extra time on my hands, I thought it would be fun to spend some time between recruiter calls and make a little video. When I did my Soft Skill...
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High Adventure and Project Leadership
(A guest post by Rick Valerga, author of The Cure for the Common Project) About a week ago, project management author Rick Valerga approached me through the blog to chat about social media. We hit it...
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A Crazy Happenstance
Okay, this post is for my regular readers who might think this was kind of nifty. As you know, the Panama Canal is one of my favourite project management stories. You know that recently I made a nifty...
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What do PMs Want from Software in 2011?
With the rise of social media, the last few years has produced a glut of project management tools and software. I’ve been paying close attention to what’s out there and have written about it before....
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Nail Your Next PM Job With A Simple Trick
I enjoy working on my resume about as much as I enjoy sticking my hand down the garburator to pull out a fallen spoon. I loathe the exercise, and it makes me break out in a sweat. What makes it worse...
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6 Leadership Skills for Project Managers
(A guest post by Kristen Riley, of Villanova University) So, about a week ago, I wrote a piece where I began what I expect to be a long ramble on soft skills that would span multiple blog posts. Well,...
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Announcing the PM Visionary Series
Last week I published a fun article entitled What Do PMs Want From Software in 2011? I received a lot of positive feedback for this piece both on and offline. What I enjoyed most was including other...
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Project Management Visionaries: Wrike
This is the first entry in the PM Visionary Series. I’m quite thrilled to be able to introduce Andrew Filev of Wrike Software. In today’s article, he describes the challenges of globalization,...
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Project Management Visionaries: At Task
This is the second entry in the PM Visionary Series. I’ve spent well over a year getting to know Ty Kiisel of At Task Software. We’ve spent a lot of time on each other’s blogs, and I’ve been on his...
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Project Management Visionaries: Crosspoint
This is the third entry in the PM Visionary Series. Building this blog has been a wonderful experience, because of all the relationships it’s allowed me to develop. About a year ago, Bob Light of...
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Project Management Visionaries: Vertabase
This is the fourth and final(?) entry in the PM Visionary Series. Some time ago I met Mark Phillips of Vertabase online in the Ask About Projects forum. We found we kept answering the same questions...
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Project Management Visionaries: RedCritter
This is the fifth entry in the PM Visionary Series. And here I thought my series was done. Recently, I wrote an article where I thought that might be a nifty idea. And then along came At Task Stream,...
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Google Plus Win
Over the last few years I’ve become quite involved with social media. That’s great and all, but to be perfectly honest, there are some days I wish I’d never become active. It’s not that I don’t enjoy...
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Project Management Visionaries: Acumen
This is the sixth entry in the PM Visionary Series. I recently received an e-mail from Racquel Joseph, the Marketing Coordinator for a new project management software application called Acumen. After...
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