4 Tips for an Effective Negotiation and the “5-Step Negotiating Approach”
Some people think master negotiators are born with that special gift, and it’s part of their DNA. However, negotiation skills can be learnt with practice, and I’d like to share with you 4 tips for an effective negotiation.
7 Key Behaviors for Facilitating Productive Project Meetings
Meetings are a reality of every industry and certainly for every project. A successfully facilitated meeting can add significant value to your meeting participants, your projects, and your organization.
Improve Your Chances for a Successful Project
By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. The Contemporary Issue: Managing Potential Failure One of the comments I make to senior managers during executive briefing sessions is as follows: “If all of your projects are completed successfully, you are probably not taking enough risk and not working …
When a Successful Project Isn’t
By Steve Blais, PMP, PMI-PBA Project managers are well versed in the various constraints that are used to determine project success: cost (budget), time (duration) and scope. And, certainly, the constraints can be used to objectively assess the success of a project: We did everything …
4 Big Agile Don’ts Learned from TPS
By Ko Ito, PMP, PMI-ACP, DASSM 1. Don’t Be Agile While Agile methods can trace significant influences back to Lean Manufacturing, which was inspired by the Toyota Production System (TPS), Taiichi Ohno, the father of TPS, says, “Don’t be agile,” in his …
The Importance of the Better Business Cases™ System and the Five Case Model: Do’s, Don’ts, and Insights
In this exclusive Zoom Q&A with Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG, Richard explains the importance of the Better Business Cases system and the Five…
