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Why YOU Spend 90% of YOUR Time Communicating 15 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
“A Project Manager spends 90% of his or her time communicating.” Really? Yes really! “But if I spend all day talking on the phone and sending texts and emails and attending meetings when I am suppos...
The Best Agile Certification Training 22 Jul 2013 | 10:04 pm
A quick confession I ‘grew up’ in a waterfall world. All of my early projects used a waterfall methodology. Another way to describe this could be a step or stair step approach. We stepped through the...
Managing Multiple Projects versus Multitasking 9 Jul 2013 | 04:59 am
Are you a good at multitasking? You can test yourself right now using the Multitask Test http://open-site.org/blog/the-multitask-test/, maybe you really are a multitasking star or maybe you should ...
Famous American Project Managers 14 Jun 2013 | 12:19 am
Check out this info graphic of 5 Famous Project Managers in American History. Until I saw the graphic I really had not thought about which project managers in history deserve to be showcased. I also h...
Pump Up Your Project Management Skills with These Strategies 24 May 2013 | 12:33 am
This article by Jennifer Morris is a great reminder on some excellent project management communications basics. Be sure to watch this pmStudent mini-lesson for Quick Communication Tips too! There is a...
How to Conduct a Lessons Learned Session 8 May 2013 | 12:51 am
We all know that gathering lessons learned is a best practice and part of our professional responsibility. But that doesn’t mean that we all do it. If the reason you do not is because you don’t know e...
The Five Whys or Bring Your Inner Child to Work 25 Apr 2013 | 01:45 am
There is something that most toddlers do that is a good business practice. They ask ‘Why’. At a certain stage they ask why to just about everything. This is probably preferable to the stage where they...
Four Tips for Successful Virtual Meetings 4 Apr 2013 | 10:36 pm
Virtual meetings are not going away anytime soon. If anything we will have more and more of them. As we reach out globally, yet cut back on spending (goodbye travel expenses), we will continue to meet...
The Accidental Project Manager 21 Mar 2013 | 01:01 am
Josh Nankivel who created the pmStudent community that we all now enjoy, was an accidental project manager. Well me too! And maybe you as well. Apparently it is not all that unusual that some of us st...
New Doors Are Opening 28 Feb 2013 | 08:26 pm
So earlier this month I was at Vandenberg Air Force Base. I got the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a spacecraft launch. (Here’s my own video from my iPhone edited in with some NASA footage) My ...
