Can Microsoft® Project Be Used for Agile Projects?
By Keith Wilson
Can Microsoft Project be used for Agile projects? Yes! Customizable fields and custom groups can be used effectively to create an Agile template.
October 23, 2015
How One Company is Using Project Based Learning to Educate the Next Generation of Project Leaders
By Anne Foley
Learn how to collaborate in a project environment, and use some of the problem solving techniques within Lean Six Sigma to help solve problems.
October 19, 2015
As Project Managers, You’re Shaping the Future
By Shar Olivier
As project managers, you are placed in the position of predicting the future on a daily basis, something that scientists and world leaders are attempting to do as our global climate changes at an alarming rate. How do project managers fit into this mix?
October 16, 2015
Implementing Metrics in Project Management: Hope for the Best but Plan for the Worst
By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D.
With the growth in project management metrics, KPIs and dashboard reporting systems, companies are improving their success to failure ratios on projects and strategic initiatives. But even though the path looks bright, all that glitters is not always gold, at least seen by those people that would be required to measure and report new metrics.
October 7, 2015
Ways That a Project Management Office (PMO) Can Fail
By Deborah A. Dell
Deciding to implement a Project Management Office (PMO) is easy. Being able to implement the decision, however, may be difficult because of all of the roadblocks that could exist.
September 16, 2015
A Random Act Of Acknowledgment
By Judith W. Umlas
It’s always so inspiring when I come upon what I would call “Random Acts of Acknowledgement” in my everyday life.
August 18, 2015
CAR CHASE: “Driven” to Acknowledge!
By Judith W. Umlas
I was already late for my appointment, but I suddenly felt “driven” to FOLLOW THAT CAR!!! I needed to tell the driver that what he or she had done was truly an act of kindness and consideration, and how moved I was by that action.
August 13, 2015
Is Judy Losing Her Mind…or Just Her Fear?
By Judith W. Umlas
I have been thinking a lot about what stops us from doing the brave and inspiring things we want to and are able to do.
August 3, 2015
Behind the Scenes of my International Project Management Day Keynote Taping: From Cowardly Lion to Lionhearted Leader!
By Judith W. Umlas
I worked as a television producer and writer at WCBS-TV for about a dozen years. I know the workings of a TV studio inside and out. So that should make my keynote videotaping a piece of cake for me, right? Wrong!
July 24, 2015