Being able to influence others should be a primary skill for any project manager. Bloomberg offers Seven Hints for Selling Ideas. Hint one: Seek many inputs. Listen actively to many points of view. Then incorporate aspects of each of them into the project plan, so that you can show people exactly where their perspectives or [...]
Rita Mulcahy is well known in the project management arena, having written the best and most successful PMP exam prep book as well as establishing RMC Project Management. Today I am saddened by the news that Rita passed last Saturday after a protracted battle with breast cancer. Rita was an internationally recognized expert on project [...]
Writing on PM Karma, Jason Westland lists the 5 Goals of a project manager. Jason gets the goals right, but I have to expand on goal 4 because this is a particular pet peeve of mine: Goal 4: To keep customers happy You could finish your project on time, under budget and have met 100% [...]